ARGUMENT. FINGAL dispatches Ossian and Toscar, the son of Conloch, and father of Malvina, to raise a stone, on the banks of the stream of Crona, to perpetuate the memory of a victory which he had obtained in that place. When they were employed in that work, Car-ul, a neighbouring chief, invited them to a feast. They went and Toscar fell desperately in love with Colnadona, the daughter of Car-ul. Colna-dona became no less enamoured of Toscar. An incident, at a hunting party, brings their loves to a happy issue. COLNA-DONA. А РОЕМ. * COL-AMON of troubled streams, dark wanderer of distant vales, I behold thy course, between trees, near Car-ul's echoing halls! There dwelt * Colna-dona signifies the love of heroes. Col-amon, na' row river. Car-ul, dark-eyed. Col-amon, the residence of Car-ul, was in the neighbourhood of Agricola's wall, towards the south. Car-ul seems to have been of the race of those Britons, who are distinguished by the name of Maiatæ by the writers of Rome. Maiatæ is derived from two Gaelic words, Moi, a plain, and Aitich, inhabitants; so that the signification of Maiatæ is, the inhabitants of the plain country; a name given to the Britons, who were settled in the Lowlands, in contradistinction to the Caledonians (i e. Cael-don, the Gauls of the hills), who were possessed of the more mountainous division of North Britain. |