Encouraged by Home and others, Macpherson produced 15 pieces, all laments for fallen warriors, translated from the Scottish Gaelic, despite his limitations in that tongue, which he was induced to publish at Edinburgh in 1760, including the "Death of Oscar," in a pamphlet: "Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland". Extracts were then published in "The Scots Magazine" and "The Gentleman's Magazine" which were popular and the notion of these fragments as glimpses of an unrecorded Gaelic epic began.