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The Voyage of St Brendan - Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation with Indexes of Themes and Motifs from the Stories (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
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The Voyage of St Brendan - Representative Versions of the Legend in English Translation with Indexes of Themes and Motifs from the Stories (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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The story of the voyage of the sixth-century Irish saint, Brendan
the Navigator, is one of the greatest legends of the Middle Ages.
To the nations of medieval Europe the ocean voyage became a
metaphor for the perilous journey of the Christian soul in search
of the Promised Land, and no spiritual odyssey attracted wider
interest. In recent years Brendan's voyage has become increasingly
popular as a topic of interest, not only in medieval studies, but
also within the history of travel literature in general. One of the
legend's charms is that it can be read in a number of ways: as a
thinly disguised account of Irish travels and discoveries in the
Atlantic, as a seafaring story in the fashion of the Irish immrama
(literally "rowings out"), or as an allegorical tale of Man's
journey through life. It also has links with the monastic culture
of its day, and contains echoes of the Odyssey and the Aeneid,
Sinbad the Sailor and the quest for the Holy Grail. Barron and
Burgess's volume collects the most important versions of the voyage
from a wide variety of cultures, and presents them in modern
English translations together with a general introduction to
Brendan, explanatory commentaries and an extensive bibliography.
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