The Voyageur Express

Episode 4: Popular Culture of the Fur Trade (Ossian Poems) Voyageur Express 4

July 3rd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 5 mins

albany river, bagpips, fur trade, hbc, highlands of scotland, nwc, orkney islands, osnaburgh house, ossian, poetry, song, voyageur

This episode is a reading from Donald Macpherson's collection of poetry he attributed to Ossian.
You can read the original here:
Fingal an ancient Epic Poem in Six Books: Together with several other Poems, composed by Ossian the son of Fingal Translated from the Galic Language (you can read it here: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o5164-w0010.shtml#image

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