OSSIAN  , OssIN or OISIN, the legendary Irish 3rd-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero of See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic literature, son of Finn . According to the See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend embodied in the Ossianic or Ossinic poems and See also:

• PROSE

prose romances which See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early spread over See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland and See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, Ossian and his Fenian followers were defeated in 283 at the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Gabhra by the Irish See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king Carbery, and Ossian spent many years in See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy-See also:

• LAND

land, eventually being baptized by St See also:

• PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
• PATRICK, ST

Patrick . As Oisin he was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long celebrated in Irish See also:

• SONG

song and legend, and in See also:

• RECENT

recent years the Irish See also:

• LITERARY

literary revival has repopularized the Fenian hero . In Scotland the Ossia,nic revival is associated. with the name of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• MACPHERSON, JAMES (1736–1796)
• MACPHERSON, SIR DAVID LEWIS (1818–1896)

Macpherson (q.v) . See See also:

• CELT
• CELT, or KELT

CELT: Literature; also Nutt's Ossian and the Ossianic Literature (1899) .