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Encyclopedia Britannica



OSSIAN

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 354 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OSSIAN , OssIN or OISIN, the legendary Irish 3rd-century hero of Celtic literature, son of Finn. According to the legend embodied in the Ossianic or Ossinic poems and
prose
  romances which early spread over Ireland and
Scotland
 , Ossian and his Fenian followers were defeated in 283 at the battle of Gabhra by the Irish king Carbery, and Ossian spent many years in fairy-land, eventually being baptized by St
Patrick
 . As Oisin he was
long
  celebrated in Irish song and legend, and in
recent
  years the Irish literary revival has repopularized the Fenian hero. In
Scotland
  the Ossia,nic revival is associated. with the name of James
Macpherson
  (q.v).
See
CELT
 : Literature; also Nutt's Ossian and the Ossianic Literature (1899).


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