The heroes, with the exception of Cuchullin, who appear in this volume, figure in the tales and poems of the Ossianic or Fian Cycle, which is common to Ireland and to Scotland.

On fragments of these folk-tales the poet Macpherson reared his Ossianic epic, in imitation of the Iliad and Paradise Lost.

This story belongs to the Ossianic or Fian cycle of Gaelic tales in prose and verse.

A few critics, led by Dr. Johnson, demanded to see the original manuscripts, and when Macpherson refused to produce them,[209] the Ossianic poems were branded as a forgery; nevertheless they had enormous success.

Can you account for the remarkable success of the Ossianic forgeries? 18.

Nutt's Ossian and Ossianic Literature.

Nature. 1883 Jan. 21 On the Ossianic Poems.

Nay, for what I saw, the compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic.

Here is a peculiar race, of most unfathomable origin, possessed of the qualities which have always prompted poetry, and living lives which are to us as shadowy as those of the Ossianic heroes; our own, and passing awaywhile we take no pains to arrest their fleeting traits or to record their picturesque traditions.

She has even caught their tone, and her language will be found to have something of an Ossianic simplicity and abruptness, well suited to the theme.

This epic is very Ossianic in style, is full of beauties, and is most interesting.

Schoolcraft's procedure, in other words, amounts to a sort of Ossianic mystification; and unfortunately he has had not a few imitators, to the confusion of comparative psychologists and students of the evolution of love.

Fingal caught the fleeting fancy of the moment in a manner never achieved by the true Ossianic lays of Ireland.

And although some of the pieces contained in that volume have been reprinted in such undertakings of a learned character as the volumes of the Dublin Ossianic Society, J.F. Campbell's Leabhar na Feinne, and Cameron's Reliquiae Celticae, they have aroused little interest amongst those ignorant of the Irish tongue.