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James Macpherson, the young rhapsode (etymologically speaking) with poetic aspirations who is stimulated or even “obligated” to prove the existence of other founding traditions in the European culture besides the Greek and Latin ones, “invents” Ossianic epic poems by resorting to oral and popular literature. Elements of the Ossianic model were identified in the Romanian culture during the construction of the national state and identity. By “inventing traditions”, to use Hobsbawm’s terminology, the Romanian modernity was built on the concept of rurality, term that was later applied to the entire Romanian culture.

Keywords: pattern Ossian, tradition, construction, identity, modernity