Starno (Ossian)

Starno von Lochlin is in the work of Ossian by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, King of Scandinavia ( Lochlann in old Irish ) and the father of Swaran and Agandecca .

Starno is in the poem Cath-Loda ("Battle for Loda") the deceitful enemy of the Scottish King Fingal . In order to be able to murder him, he pretends to Fingal that he agrees to marry Agandecca, Fingal's childhood sweetheart.

“Welcome me, the rocky King of Morvens ! he is welcome to me! ”said the gloomy Starno. (Ossian: Cath-Loda )

But because Agandecca does fall in love with Fingal, she warns him at the last moment about the ambush her father set up. Starno kills his daughter out of anger. Fingal defeats him in a duel and takes him prisoner, but gives him life and freedom for the love of Agandecca.

Starno von Lochlin is a fictional character from Macpherson and has no equivalent in the Celtic tradition.

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Post-ancient Celtic reception. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7069-0541-1 , p. 354.
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , p. 297.

Web links

• James Macpherson, Michael Denis ( transl .): The Poems of Ossian, An Ancient Celtic Poet . Trattner, 1768 (today Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Macpherson, Michael Denis (trans.): The poems of Ossian, an ancient Celtic poet . P.56.