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180 Gaelic Society of Inuerness.
shiu ooilley er ghcddyn ayrn, as siimeuiU', agus giats air son grais.
grayse er grayse. Oir thugadli an lagli le Maois,
Son va'n leigh er ny choyrt achthainigangrasagusanfhirinn
liorish Moses agh liaink grayse le losa Criosd.
as fi.irinys liorish Yeesey Creest. Cha'n fliaca neach ur bitli Dia
Cha vel unnane erbee er vakin riamli ; an t aon-ghin Mic, a ta
Jee ec traa erbee ; yn ynrycan ann an iiclid an Athar, is esau
Mac v'er-ny-glieddyn, ta iiyns a dh'fhoillsich e.
oghrish yn Ayr, eshyn t'er hoilshaghey
eh.
17th February 1885.
On this date R. D. M. Chisholm of Chisholm (The Chisholm)
was elected a life member. Thereafter 3Ir Alexander Macbain,
M.A., F.S.A., Scot., Inverness, read a paper on the Heroic and
Ossianic Literature. Mr Macbain's paper was as follows :
THE HEROIC AND OSSIANIC LITERATURE.
Ireland and Scotland had practically a common language and
literature until the fall of the Lordship of the Isles and the time
of the Reformation, and even after these events, the ebb of Irish
influence was felt in our earliest printed works and in the style of
orthography and of language ado})ted. This close conn