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unusual facts about Ossian


Robert Archibald Armstrong

In the Dictionary of National Biography published 1885, Thompson Cooper calls it "a most meritorious work," writing "the affinities of the Celtic words being traced in most of the languages of ancient and modern times. To it is prefixed a Gaelic grammar, and there is a short historical appendix of ancient names, deduced from the authority of Ossian and other poets."


Donner family

Patrick Donner (4 December 1904 – 19 August 1988), British Member of Parliament, son of Ossian.

Gustaf Skarsgård

He has five siblings: Alexander, Sam, Bill, Eija and Valter, and two half-brothers from his father's second wife Megan Everett, Ossian and Kolbjörn.

Oisin

James Macpherson claimed to have found old poems from Ossian (or Oisin).

Ossian M. Ross

Betty Ross Clarke, a great granddaughter of Ossian Ross, was an American stage actress and film starlet.

Piero Camporesi

(edit by) Vittorio Alfieri, Estratti d'Ossian e da Stazio per la tragica (Asti: Casa d'Alfieri, 1969)

Steen Steensen Blicher

Also something of an Anglophile, he translated British poetry, including Macpherson’s Ossian and novels such as Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield – once he even tried to write poetry in English.


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