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In this episode in the poems of Ossian, the huntress Corban-Cargla is imprisoned by Starno when he finds her with a deer she has just shot. He then kills her father, Torcul-torno. Although Starno's 'red eyes rolled on me in love', Corban-Cargla rejects him, and he imprisons her in a cave where she is discovered by Fingal. As such, she seems a reworking of the Virgin huntress, Diana, and indeed the motif of blowing drapery framing her head first appears in Roman sarcophagi, and became very popular from the Renaissance on. (Monsters and Maidens, 2004)