• I was the hero poet of the Gaels.
  • The son of Fingal, I was said to have lived in the third century.
  • Between 1762 and 1763, a James Macpherson published what were claimed to be my poems.
  • These were based on the exploits of Fingal and his family, translated from the Gaelic.
  • The famed Dr Samuel Johnson was dubious of this claim, and the poems have generally been considered spurious.

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