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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSSIAN  , OssIN or OISIN, the legendary Irish 3rd-

century hero of
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Celtic literature, son of Finn . According to the legend embodied in the Ossianic or Ossinic poems and
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prose romances which early spread over Ireland and Scotland, Ossian and his Fenian followers were defeated in 283 at the
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battle of Gabhra by the Irish king Carbery, and Ossian spent many years in fairy-
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land, eventually being baptized by St Patrick . As Oisin he was long celebrated in Irish
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song and legend, and in
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recent years the Irish
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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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