Oisin
Oisin,a legendary Gaelic warrior and bard, known also as Ossian ( see Macpherson and Fingal ). In The Wanderings of Oisin ( 1889 ), a narrative poem by Yeats , the bard tells St Patrick the story of his love for Niamh , the daughter of the sea-god Manannán.
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