Ossian
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English: Ossian is the narrator and supposed author of a cycle of poems by James Macpherson, which he claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic. He is based on Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhail, a poet and warrior of the fianna in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology
Polski: Osjan to postać stworzona przez szkockiego pisarza Jamesa Macphersona (* 1736; † 1796) - bard, narrator i - w domyśle - autor cyklu wierszy Macphersona, który wystąpił jako ich tłumacz z Gaelic.
Deutsch: Ossian ist ein von dem Schotten James Macpherson (* 1736; † 1796) erfundener gälischer "Barde".
Italiano: Ossian fu probabilmente un bardo irlandese dell'XI, XII secolo. Il suo personaggio divenne molto famoso quando James Macpherson finse di tradurre una raccolta di suoi scritti (in realtà inventati).
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Ossian, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801 |
Ossian's dream, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1813 |
Malvine, dying in the arms of Fingal, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson |

