Ossian Collection > Poems of Ossian

CATH-LODA 13
The foes met by Turthor's stream. They heaved like
ridgy waves. Their echoing strokes are mixed.
Shadowy death flies over the hosts. They were clouds
of hail, with squalling winds in their skirts. Their
showers are roaring together. Below them swells the
dark-rolling deep.
Strife of gloomy U-thorno, why should I mark thy
wounds ? Thou art with the years that are gone ; thou
fadest on my soul !
Starno brouglit forward his skirt of war, and Swaran
his own dark wing. Nor a harmless fire is Duth-
maruno's sword. Lochlin is rolled over her streams.
The wrrathful kings are lost in thought. They roll
their silent eyes, over the flight of their land. The
horn of Fingal was heard ; the sons of woody Albion
returned. But many lay, by Turthor's stream, silent in
their blood.
" Chief of Crathmo," said the king, " Duth-maruno,
hunter of boars ! not harmless returns my eagle from
the field of foes I For this white-bosomed Lanul shall
brighten, at her streams ; Candona shall rejoice, as he
wanders in Crathrao's fields."
"Colgorm,"* replied the chief, "was the first of my
race in Albion ; Colgorm, the rider of ocean, through its
watery vales. He slew his brother in I-thorno : + he
left the land of his fathers. He chose his place, in
* The family of Duth-maruno, it appears, came originally
from Scandinavia, or, at least, from some of the northern isles,
subject, in chief, to the kings of Lochlin. The Highland
senachies, who never missed to make their comments on, and
additions to, the works of Ossian, have given us a long list of
the ancestors of Duth-maruno, and a particular account of their
actions, many of which are of the marvellous kind. One of the
tale-makers of the north has chosen for his hero, Starnmor, the
father of Duth-maruno, and, considering the adventures through
which he has led him, the piece is neither disagreeable nor
abounding with that kind of fiction which shocks credibility.
t An island of Scandinavia.