Fragments of Ancient Poetry

Poetry written by James MacPherson and attributed to "Ossian", in the most famous literary hoax of all time. According to Wikipedia: "Ossian is the narrator, and supposed author, of a cycle of poems which the Scottish poet James Macpherson claimed to have translated from ancient sources in the Scots Gaelic. He is based on Oisín, son of Finn or Fionn mac Cumhaill, a character from Irish mythology. The furore over the authenticity of the poems continued into the 20th century."