 | 1812 - 364 pagina’s
...steps before thy race. In light, I met the foes of was thought that the spirits of the decea&d hanDted it, by night, which adds more terror to the description...The horrid circle of Brumo, where often, they said, Me ghosts of the dead IiowUil round the stone of fear. * From this passage, it appear?, that it was... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1814 - 728 pagina’s
...translator of Ossian, mentions such places as, believed to be haunted by the spirits of the dead — " The horrid circle of Brumo, where often, they said,...ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of fear." In the chamber below, the Druid might have his familiar, (ie his crafty 'confederate,) who, by hollow... | |
 | John Hughes - 1818 - 378 pagina’s
...they strove together ; and Grumal, on the fourth, was bound. Far from his friends they placed him, in the horrid circle of Brumo ; where often, they said, the ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of their fear." But the heroes of Ossian seem to have bid defiance to all the powers of superstition,... | |
 | Hugh Campbell - 1822 - 624 pagina’s
...(Fing. b. 6.) in Craca, which is supposed to be one of the isles of Shetland. It was thought, <hat the spirits of the deceased haunted it, by night,...ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of fear. t From this passage, it appears, that it was Foldath who had advised the night-attack. The gloomy character... | |
 | Esq. A. Atkinson - 1823 - 482 pagina’s
...translator of Ossian, mentions such places as were believed to be haunted by the spirits of the dead, — " The horrid circle of Brumo, where often, they said,...ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of fear." In the chamber below, the Druid might have had his familiar, (ie his crafty confederate) who, by hollow... | |
 | 1831 - 746 pagina’s
...Grumal, on the fourth was bound. Far from his friends, they placed him in the horrid circle of Brunco ; where often, they said, the ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of their fear ." — Fingal, B. vi. Now certain it is, that heroes were persons who did nothing but fight... | |
 | 1839 - 426 pagina’s
...haunted it, by night, which adds more terror to the description introduced here. " The horrid cjrcle of Brumo, where often, they said, the ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of fear." stranger. Shuddering he stops in his journey, and looks up for the beam of the morn ! " Wi'y* delights... | |
 | Archibald Clerk - 1870 - 602 pagina’s
...days they strove together, and Grumal on the fourth was bound. Far from his friends they placed him in the horrid circle of Brumo, where often, they said, the ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of their fear. But he afterwards shone like a pillar of the light of heaven, They fell by his mighty hand.... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 622 pagina’s
...Grurnal on the fourth was bound. Far from his friends they placed him in the horrid circle of Bnuno, where often, they said, the ghosts of the dead howled round the stone of their fear. But he afterwards shone like a pillar of the light of heaven. They fell by his mighty hand.... | |
 | Peter Hately Waddell - 1875 - 446 pagina’s
...story of Grumal — Fingal, B. VI. — that the people of Craca " placed him, far from his friends, in the horrid circle of Brumo; where often, they said, the ghosts of the dead howled around the stone of their fear" — from which we may reasonably infer that this place of supernatural... | |
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Brumo was a place of worship (Fing. b. 6.) in Craca, which is supposed to be one of the isles of Shetland. It was thought, that the spirits of the deceased haunted it, by night, which adds more terror to the description introduced here. The horrid circle... 
