ossian

Turns out Napoleon kept a copy of Ossian on him at all times during his war campaigns.

They compared Ossian to Irish legends and then compared The Odyssey to The Illiad.

Nabokov has curious things to say about the influence of Ossian (maybe in the introduction to his translation of the Song of Igor's Campaign?).

My pet theory is that he cribbed a lot of inspiration from Ossian for his famous harangues to his army before pivotal moments in battle.

Despite attempts, from the outset, to position Ossian alongside the Homeric epics and to distance it from Irish sources, our results indicate significant network-structural differences between Macpherson’s text and those of Homer.

The “social network” of characters in Ossian is closer to characters in Irish legends than to Homer?

And if they've identified the wolf as "Ossian", why don't they talk to the owners (?) of the trained wolf?

Ossian was suspiciously close to the Irish where Odyssey and Iliad were quite different.

Going deeper into the rabbit hole, I bought a copy of Ossian.

If Ossian were real, then you'd expect later sources like "Acallam na Senórach" to either have been inspired by it or similar sources; if Ossian were not real then you'd expect it to have been inspired by "Acallam na Senórach" or similar sources.

This "Life of Wellington" mentions the capture of Napoleon's traveling library and mentions that they found the works of Homer, the Bible, Ossian (a supposed ancient Scottish poet now thought to be fraudulent), and a work of Voltaire.

>Now scientists have used mathematical techniques to compare patterns in the “social networks” of characters in Ossian with those in two key Irish stories – and discovered they are almost a perfect match, virtually ending any remaining debate.

The “social network” of characters in Ossian is closer to characters in Irish legends than to Homer?

And if they've identified the wolf as "Ossian", why don't they talk to the owners (?) of the trained wolf?

If Ossian were real, then you'd expect later sources like "Acallam na Senórach" to either have been inspired by it or similar sources; if Ossian were not real then you'd expect it to have been inspired by "Acallam na Senórach" or similar sources.

This "Life of Wellington" mentions the capture of Napoleon's traveling library and mentions that they found the works of Homer, the Bible, Ossian (a supposed ancient Scottish poet now thought to be fraudulent), and a work of Voltaire.

Ossian was suspiciously close to the Irish where Odyssey and Iliad were quite different.

Going deeper into the rabbit hole, I bought a copy of Ossian.