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The Voyage Of Saint Brendan: Representative Versions Of The Legend In English Translation, With Indexes of Themes and Motifs from the Stories (Exeter Medieval ... Studies) (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
W. R. J. Barron
Glyn S. Burgess
Paperback. University of Exeter Press 2005-06.
ISBN 9780859897556
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Publisher description
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. This new paperback edition also
includes a comprehensive index of story-elements specially devised with the
Brendan student in mind to allow easy comparison of the different versions.
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