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OSSIAN , OssIN or OISIN, the legendary Irish 3rd-See also:century See also:hero of See also:Celtic literature, son of Finn. According to the See also:legend embodied in the Ossianic or Ossinic poems and See also:prose romances which See also:early spread over See also:Ireland and See also:Scotland, Ossian and his Fenian followers were defeated in 283 at the See also: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-See also:land, eventually being baptized by St See also:Patrick. As Oisin he was See also:long celebrated in Irish See also:song and legend, and in See also:recent years the Irish See also: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 (q.v).
See See also:CELT: Literature; also Nutt's Ossian and the Ossianic Literature (1899).
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