Ossian Collection > Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books

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Not forgeting my fathers, faid Fingal, I liave bounded over
ridgy feas : theirs was the times of danger, in the days of old.
Nor gatheu'S darknefs on me, before foes, tho' I am young, in mv
locks. — Chief of Crathmo-craulo, the field of night is mine.
^ij ruflied, in all his arms, wide-bounding over Turthor's
(Ireain, that fent its fallen roar, by night, thro' Gormal's mifty
vale. — A moon-beam glittered on a rock ; in the midlt, flood a
ftately form ; a form with floating locks, like Lochlin's white-
bofomed maids. — Unequal are her fleps, and fljort : flie throws a
broken fong on wind. At times flie toffcs her white arms : for
grief is in her foul.
ToRCUL-TORNO *, of aged locks! where now are thy fleps,
by Lulan ? thou hafl failed, at thine own dark flreams, father of
• Torcul-torno, according to tradition, their attendants, and the party of Torcul-
was king of Crathlun, a diftrid in Sweden, torno were totally defeated, and he himfeif
The river Lulan ran near the refidence of flain. Starno purfued his victory, laid
Torcul-torno. There is a river in Sweden, wafte the diftrid of Crathlun, and, coming
ftill called Lula, which is probably the fame to the refidence of Torcul-torno, carried
with Lulan. The war between Starno and ofF, by force, Conban-carglas, the beauti-
Torcul-torno,which terminated in the death ful daughter of his enemy. Her he con-
of the latter, had its rife at a hunti.-.^ party, fined in a cave, near the palace of Gormal,
Starno being invited, in a friendly manner, where, on account of her cruel treatment,
by Torcul-torno, both kings, with their (he became diftraded.
followers, went to the mountains of Stiva- The paragraph, juft now before us, is
mor, to hunt. A boar rufhed from the the fong of Conban-carglas, at the time
wood before the kings, and Torcul-torno fhe was difcovered by Fingal. It is in Ly-
killed it. Starno thought this behaviour ric meafure, and fet to niufic, which is
a breach upon the privilege of guefls, who wild and fimple, and fo inimitably fuited^o
were always honoured, as tradition exprefles the fituation of the unhappy lady, that few
it, with the danger of the chace. A quarrel can hear it without tears,
arol'e, the kings came to battle, with all
B b Conban-