id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-797 Ossian - Wikipedia .html text/html 5472 619 67 In 1760 Macpherson published the English-language text Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Gaelic or Erse language.[5] Later that year, he claimed to have obtained further manuscripts and in 1761 he claimed to have found an epic on the subject of the hero Fingal (with Fingal or Fionnghall meaning "white stranger"[6] ), written by Ossian. In 1766 the Irish antiquarian and Gaelic scholar Charles O'Conor dismissed Ossian's authenticity in a new chapter Remarks on Mr. Mac Pherson's translation of Fingal and Temora that he added to the second edition of his seminal history.[17] In 1775 he expanded his criticism in a new book, Dissertation on the origin and antiquities of the antient Scots. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-797.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-797.txt