Volume 1

Burt's letters from the north of Scotland : with facsimiles of the original engravings / With an introduction by R. Jamieson. And the History of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the family of Invernahyle, a ms. communicated by Sir Walter Scott.

  • Edmund Burt
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Burt's letters from the north of Scotland : with facsimiles of the original engravings / With an introduction by R. Jamieson. And the History of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the family of Invernahyle, a ms. communicated by Sir Walter Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0 Ullin, Carruil, and Rouno, Voices of the time that has given way of old, ' Let me hear you in the darkness of Selma, And awaken the spirit of songs.— 1 hear you not, children of melody: [/n] what hall of clouds is your \resf\ slumber ? Strike ye the harp that is not heavy. In the gloomy robes of the mist of the morning, Where the sun rises very sonorous From the grey-headed waves ? Now, we know that all nations, having no light but that of nature to guide them, espe- cially when in difficult circumstances, look with fond aspirations towards the land of their fathers, to which they believe and hope that their souls after death will return. This was the belief of the Goths in their state of pro- bation in Scandinavia, and the hall of Odin was in Asgard \ and here we find the Caledonian bard, in the true spirit of the ancient and original belief of his countrymen, supposing the hall of the rest of his departed friends to be in the east^ where the sufi rises.* * This is only one of many passages in the poems ascribed to Ossian, which cannot reasonably be suspected