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Fingal

a personage celebrated in the poems of Ossian, who was his son.

He was Prince of Morven, a province of ancient Caledonia, and struggled against the power of the Romans, who were in his time the rulers of England.

He also undertook warlike expeditions to the Orkneys, Ireland, and even Sweden, and was a prince of a highly chivalric character. Lived in the 3d century.

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