LC control no. | n 83139004 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Ossian, active 3rd century |
Variant(s) | Oisín, active 3rd century Ossian, 3rd cent. |
See also | Macpherson, James, 1736-1796 |
Beginning date | 02 |
Found in | Macpherson, J. The poems of Ossian, 1835 (a.e.) t.p. (Ossian) Wilpert, G. von. Lex. der Weltlit., c1963: p. 848 (a blind poet Ossian, or Oisin, of the 3rd cent.) New encycl. Britannica, micropaedia (Ossian, Scottish Gaelic name for Oisín, the Irish warrior-poet of the Fenian cycle of hero tales about Finn and his war band) The concise Oxford companion to English literature (online), 4th ed., 2012 (published online 2013) (under James MacPherson: collected materials for Fingal (1762); claimed to be faithful translation of epic by Ossian, the son of Finn, dating from some vague but remote period of Scottish history) |