person
Fingal (Ossian)
Fingal
also: Fionn mac Cumhaill, Fingal of Ossian
Fingal is the heroic warrior-king of James Macpherson's Ossian poems (1762), presented as ancient Scottish-Gaelic epic; the Ossianic poems were enormously influential in European and Hungarian Romanticism, and Fingal's brooding heroism became a Romantic archetype.
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- Drama Fragments (Five Pieces) §34 Fingal
Fingal is the heroic warrior-king of James Macpherson's Ossian poems (1760s), presented as ancient Scottish Gaelic epic; the Ossianic poems were enormously influential in 18th–19th century European Romanticism, including Hungary, and the poet's invocation of Fingal places him in the pantheon of heroic ghosts.