← James MacphersonFingalby James MacphersonEpic narrative of Celtic warrior Fingal and his battles across ancient ScotlandFind on Amazon↗About the authorJames MacphersonScottish writer who created the Ossian poems, purporting to be translations of an ancient Gaelic epic. Whether forgery or reconstruction, they had an enormous influence on European Romanticism.More by James MacphersonFragments of Ancient PoetryPurported translations of ancient Celtic poems attributed to the bard Ossian→TemoraOssian epic recounting battles of Celtic hero Fingal against Norse invaders→The Works of Ossian→