an indignant assertion that the poems were genuine.
An investigation into Ossian’s provenance was launched by the prestigious Highland Society of Scotland in the late 1790s. It found Gaels in all walks of life adamant that [James] Macpherson could not be responsible for poetry that had been around long before he was born.
from Sunday Herald: Ossian: the truth about Scotland’s Homer
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