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Ossian

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Os·sian  (shn, s-n)
n.
A legendary Gaelic hero and bard of the third century a.d.

Ossian [ˈɒsɪən]
n
(Biographies / Ossian (3rd century-3rd century) M, Irish, MISC: legendary hero, WRITING: poet) a legendary Irish hero and bard of the 3rd century a.d See also (James) Macpherson
Ossianic  adj


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Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my morbid anxieties.
The Irish first of all were jealous, for they said that Ossian was an Irish poet, that the heroes of the poems were Irish, and that Macpherson was stealing their national heroes from them.
Her movements succeeded each other with such airiness and grace that she seemed not a creature of this world but a daughter of the atmosphere, as sung in the poems of Ossian.
 
 
 
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