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out first. The old man said he would settle the question at the next annual muster; accordingly he made as many doors to his house as there were families, and placed his guests at a round table.

(The legend is sometimes told somewhat differently. See John O’Groat, p. 552.)

O’Hara Family (Tales of the), by John and Michael Branim (1825–26). They are tales of rebellion, violent passion, turbulence, and crime.

Oig M’Combich (Robin) or M’Gregor, a Highland drover, who quarrels with Harry Wakefield an English drover, about a pasture-field, and stabs him. Being tried at Carlisle for murder, Robin is condemned to death.—Sir W. Scott: The Two Drovers (time, George III.).

Oil on Troubled Waters. (See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 911.)

Oina-Morul, daughter of Mal-Orchol king of Fuärfed (a Scandinavian island). Ton-Thormod asked her in marriage, and, being refused by the father, made war upon him. Fingal sent his son Ossian to the aid of Mal-Orchol, and he took Ton-Thormod prisoner. The king now offered Ossian his daughter to wife, but the warrior-bard discovered that the lady had given her heart to Ton-Thormod; whereupon he resigned his claim, and brought about a happy reconciliation.—Ossian: Oina-Morul.

Oithona, daughter of Nuäth, betrothed to Gaul son of Morni, and the day of th eir marriage was fixed; but before the time arrived, Fingal sent for Gaul to aid him in an expediti on against the Britons. Gaul promised Oithona, if he survived, to return by a certain day. Lathmon, th e brother of Oithona, was called away from home at the same time, to attend his father on an expedi tion; so the damsel was left alone in Dunlathmon. It was now that Dunrommath lord of Uthal (one of t he Orkneys) came and carried her off by force to Tromathon, a desert island, where he concealed her in a cave. Gaul returned on the day appointed, heard of the rape, sailed for Tromathon, and found the lady, who told him her tale of woe; but scarcely had she ended when Dunrommath entered the cave with his followers. Gaul instantly fell on him, and slew him. While the battle was raging, Oithona, arrayed as a warrior, rushed into the thickest of the fight, and was slain. When Gaul had cut off the head of Dunrommath, he saw what he thought a youth dying of a wound, and, taking off the helmet, perceived it was Oithona. She died, and Gaul returned disconsolate to Dunlathmon.—Ossian: Oithona.