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Legendary islands of the Atlantic; a study in medieval geography

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« Reply #45 on: July 19, 2009, 03:25:17 am »

ATTEMPTS TO EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF THE BRENDAN
NARRATIVES

It has been intimated that the narratives of "St. Brendan's
Navigation" may have originated in misunderstood tales of his
early sea wanderings around the coasts of Ireland seeking for a
monastery site. He was successful in this at least, being best



36 ST. BRENDAN'S ISLANDS

known (excepting as a discoverer) for the great religious estab-
lishment at Clonfert, not the first which he founded in the sixth
century but the most widely known and the greatest.

Another explanation casts doubts upon his real existence and
supposes the story of the discoveries to have arisen by confusion
of language with the well-known pagan "Voyage of Bran," per-
haps the earliest of the ancient Irish Imrama, or sea sagas.

It has also been said that the origin of the Brendan narratives
may be found in "a ninth-century sermon elaborated up to its
present form by the eleventh century/' 3 A ninth-century manu-
script is said to be in the Vatican library^
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