G 239

Die ossianischen Heldenlieder

19th cent. Paper. 28 × 21 cms. 350 pp. Scribe: L. C. Stern (unsigned), 1982. Bound in linen with marbled endpapers and `Stern. Die Ossianischen Heldenlieder' in gold on spine. No record of accession - presumably acquired with G 238 above.

This is a collection of 33 poems (pp. 57-271), consisting of German translations of Scottish Gaelic heroic verse (the first four poems from the Ulster cycle, the remainder from the Fenian cycle with introduction [pp. 1-54] and notes [pp. 275-349]). The entire was printed by Stern, Zeitschr. für vergl. Litteraturgeschichte viii (1895), 51-86, 143-74. An English translation of the introduction is printed in Inverness Gaelic Society Trans. xxii (1900), 257-325.