Clara Strijbosch, The Seafaring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth Century `Voyage of Saint Brendan'.

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-MAR-02

Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS

COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

trans. Thea Summerfield (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), x + 325 pp. ISBN 1-85182-483-9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/Eur. 55.00/$65.00.

The Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis, composed in Latin around AD 800, tells of a sixth-century abbot undertaking a pilgrimage to seek the terrestrial paradise. A translation into Anglo-Norman was produced at the start of the twelfth century; in addition an `independent' version (the Reis or Reisefassung) was composed in German around 1150...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.