Ossian

thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

Irish mythical hero

thumb|250px|Ossian playing his harp, by François Gérard|François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801 thumb|Oisín and Niamh on their way to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Albert Herter, 1899 Oisín (), Osian, Ossian ( ), or anglicized as Osheen ( ) was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is the demigod son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and of Sadhbh (daughter of Bodb Dearg), and is the narrator of much of the cycle and composition of the poems that are attributed to him.

painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

opera by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

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