| 词条 | Oisín |
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LegendsHis name literally means "young deer" or fawn, and the story is told that his mother, Sadhbh, was turned into a deer by a druid, Fear Doirche (or Fer Doirich). When Fionn was hunting he caught her but did not kill her, and she returned to human form. Fionn gave up hunting and fighting to settle down with Sadhbh, and she was soon pregnant, but Fer Doirich turned her back into a deer and she returned to the wild. Seven years later Fionn found his child, naked, on Benbulbin.[3] Other stories have Oisín meet Fionn for the first time as an adult and contend over a roasting pig before they recognise each other. In Oisín in Tir na nÓg, his most famous echtra or adventure tale, he is visited by a fairy woman called Niamh Chinn Óir (Niamh of the Golden Hair or Head, one of the daughters of Manannán mac Lir, a god of the sea). Niamh's father turned her head into a pigs head because of a prophecy. She tells this to Oisín and informs him she would return to her original form if he marries her. He agrees and they return to Tir na nÓg ("the land of the young", also referred to as Tir Tairngire, "the land of promise") where Oisín becomes king.[4] Their union produces Oisín's famous son, Oscar, and a daughter, Plor na mBan ("Flower of Women"). After what seems to him to be three years Oisín decides to return to Ireland, but 300 years have passed there. Niamh gives him her white horse, Embarr, and warns him not to dismount, because if his feet touch the ground, those 300 years will catch up with him and he will become old and withered. Oisín returns home and finds the hill of Almu, Fionn's home, abandoned and in disrepair. Later, while trying to help some men who were building a road in Gleann na Smól lift a stone out of the way onto a wagon, his girth breaks and he falls to the ground, becoming an old man just as Niamh had forewarned. The horse returns to Tir na nÓg. In some versions of the story, just before he dies Oisín is visited by Saint Patrick. Oisín tells Saint Patrick the stories of the Fianna and shortly after he dies.[5] The interaction between St. Patrick and Oisín has also been said to be more complicated. It is said that they were both angered by their differences. St. Patrick attempted to convert Oisín, but Oisín hated St. Patrick's teachings. One of the stories of the two involves Oisín fighting a bull for St. Patrick. Oisín kills the bull and when St. Patrick comes to see how the results of the fight, Oisín is asleep in the bull's hide. In return for killing the bull, Oisín asks to be buried facing the east on Slieve Gullion, Co. Armagh. It is said that he was buried in the bull's hide on Curran Mountain near Manorhamiltion.[6] In the tale Acallam na Senórach (Tales of the Elders), Oisín and his comrade Caílte mac Rónáin survived to the time of Saint Patrick and told the saint the stories of the fianna.[7] This is the source of William Butler Yeats's poem The Wanderings of Oisin. In different versions of the story Oisín either defends the Druid faith, or converts to Christianity. The location of the grave site of Oisín is disputed. It is rumoured to be in Glenalmond in Perth, Scotland. Wordsworth wrote a poem on the subject entitled "Glen-Almain, the Narrow Glen". Others say it is located in the Nine Glens of Antrim at a site that has been known for generations as "Oisín's Grave". The megalithic court cairn is located on a hillside in Lubitavish, near the Glenann River, outside the village of Cushendall on the North Antrim Coast, and is believed to be the ancient burial place of Oísín. Macpherson's OssianOssian, the narrator and purported author of a series of poems published by James Macpherson in the 1760s, is based on Oisín. Macpherson claimed to have translated his poems from ancient sources in the Scottish Gaelic language. Macpherson's poems had widespread influence on many writers including Goethe and the young Walter Scott,[8] although their authenticity was widely disputed. Modern scholars have demonstrated that Macpherson based his poems on authentic Gaelic ballads, but had adapted them to contemporary sensibilities by altering the original characters and ideas and introduced a great deal of his own.[9]Other literary and film references
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Notes1. ^Beresford Ellis, Peter: "A Dictionary of Irish Mythology", page 189. Constable, London, 1987. {{ISBN|0-09-467540-6}} 2. ^{{Cite book|title=Education and Celtic myth : national self-image and schoolbooks in 20th century Ireland|first=Pádraic|last=Frehan|date=2012|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=9789042035904|oclc=819379953}} 3. ^Gregory, Lady: "Gods and Fighting Men", page 149. Colin Smythe, 1987. {{ISBN|0-901072-37-0}} 4. ^{{Cite book|title=Beauty and the beast : classic tales about animal brides and grooms from around the world|editor=Tatar, Maria|isbn=9780143111696|oclc=952384463}} 5. ^Heaney, Marie: "Over Nine Waves", page 214. Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1994. {{ISBN|0-571-14231-1}} 6. ^{{Cite book|title=A guide to Irish mythology|first=Daragh|last=Smyth|date=1996|publisher=Irish Academic Press|isbn=0716526123|edition= 2nd|location=Blackrock, Co. Dublin|oclc=36338076}} 7. ^Murphy, Gerard: The Ossianic Lore and Romantic Tales of Medieval Ireland, page 24. Colm Ó Lochlainn (for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland), 1955. 8. ^Beresford Ellis, Peter: "A Dictionary of Irish Mythology", page 159. Constable, London, 1987. {{ISBN|0-09-467540-6}} 9. ^Thomson, Derick: The Gaelic Sources of Macpherson's "Ossian", 1952. References
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