Seafaring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth Century Voyage of Saint Brendan

by Clara Strijbosch

The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Latin around AD 800, describes how the 6th-century Irish saint Brendan set sail for an island paradise on the other side of the ocean. Three and a half centuries later, around 1150, another story about St Brendan was written in the vernacular of the area around Trier, Germany. In this story, The Voyage of Saint Brendan, Brendan is said to have thrown a book into the fire in utter disbelief of the veracity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851824839
• ISBN13: 9781851824830
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"