Relating to or characteristic of Fingal or the legendary tales and mythology associated with him.
Derived from 'Fingal' plus the suffix '-ian' (forming adjectives of relation). Created in 18th-century literary circles to describe works inspired by or imitating the Ossian legends.
Fingallian works became fashionable among Romantic-era authors and composers, so people would describe artwork as 'Fingallian' to mean it had that wild, Celtic, mythic, melancholic atmosphere—the name became a code word for a whole aesthetic movement inspired by a possibly-legendary hero!
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