The Brendan Voyage

Author: Timothy Severin
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780349107073
Category : Atlantic Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
The sixth-century voyage of St Brendan from Ireland to America, is one of the most fascinating of all sea legends. Could the myth of the Irish monk and his crew sailing the Atlantic in a boat made of leather, nearly a thousand years before Columbus, have been reality? In 1976, Tim Severin and a crew of four men, set out to recreate the Brendan legend. Using the exact same methods in constructing their sailing vessel, they set out on their hazardous voyage, making it one of the most inspiring expeditions in the history of exploration.

The Brendan Voyage

Author: Tim Severin
Publisher: Gill Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
In an extraordinary attempt to recreate St Brendan's journey to America, Tim Severin and his crew embarked on an epic voyage across the vast North Atlantic. Brilliantly written, this is their story.

The Brendan Voyage

Author: Timothy Severin
Publisher: London : Hutchinson of London ; Toronto : Nelson, Foster & Scott
ISBN: 9780091331009
Category : America Discovery and exploration Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
The route they chose was the 'Stepping Stone' route (Hebrides, Faroes, Iceland and along the coast of Greenland). It is also a story of historical and archaeological interest which proves that it could be possible for the mediaeval account of the legendary voyage of the Irish monk, St. Brendan, to have been a fairly factural record of a voyage to North America centuries before the Vikings.

Saint Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus

Author: Mike McGrew
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809167050
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
"Children will be astonished to learn that Ireland's Saint Brendan may have sailed to North America almost a thousand years before Columbus, in just a small open boat with a handful of brave monks -- a trip that's been duplicated and proved possible in modern times."--

The Voyage of Saint Brendan

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70

Book Description

The Voyage of St Brendan

Author: A.B. JACKSON
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780375663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed Walserands.Although the roots of this legend lie in early Irish immrama and the Latin Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis of the ninth century, Jackson has taken the fourteenth-century Middle Dutch version of Brendan's voyage as the template for this engaging and spirited interpretation, making it recommended reading for scholars of medieval literature and lovers of fantasy adventure alike. The book includes a series of black and white linocuts by the American artist Kathleen Neeley.

Brendan the Navigator

Author: Jean Fritz
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780698117594
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.

The Legend of St Brendan

Author: Jude Mackley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047442806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
The Legend of St Brendan is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by Brendan, a sixth-century Irish saint. The immense popularity of the Latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninth-century Navigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis and changes the emphasis, leaving a recognisably secular narrative. The vernacular version focuses on marvellous imagery and the trials and tribulations of a long sea-voyage. Together the two versions demonstrate a movement away from hagiography towards adventure. Studies of the two versions rarely discuss the elements of the fantastic. Following a summary of authorship, audiences and sources, this comparative study adopts a structural approach to the two versions of the Brendan narrative. It considers what the fantastic imagery achieves and addresses issues raised with respect to theological parallels.

The Voyage of Saint Brendan

Author: Gerard McNamara
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781491271094
Category : Ancient, Classical and Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A new verse translation from the Latin of the fabulous voyage of Saint Brendan the Navigator. This story tells of Saint Brendan's incredible 6th century voyage in search of Paradise and the wonders he found along the way. The adventures of this Irish Odysseus have been brought into English for the first time in language worthy of this wonderful story.

St Brendan of Kerry, the Navigator

Author: Gearóid Ó Donnchadha
Publisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
St Brendan the Navigator was born in Fenit, County Kerry, in 484. In fact and in legend he was one of the greatest saints in an era that gave us some of our most outstanding educators and missionaries - Finnian, Corngall, Kieran, Canice, Kevin, Columba, Carthagem Cormas, Jarlath, and Enda. All but Columba have been ignored, by and large. This short book seeks to set the record straight. It tells the remarkable story of Brendan from the best historical perspective and from available manuscript sources. It also shows why so many of our great saints and educators have been ignored. Included are translations of two manuscripts, the Irish Life (written first about 750) and the Navigatio (or voyage) of Brendan (written about 850). Included also are some extracts from the Latin Life of Brendan.