Saint Brendan
088 - St Brendan performing an Easter service on the back of a whale
Ketos. PLAUTIUS, NOVA TYPIS TRANSACTA NAVIGATIO (1621) showing St Brendan performing an Easter service on the back of a whaleSt. Brendan's fame rests on the mythical adventure described in Brendan's Voyage, a 10th century romance of Brendan and a company of monks sailing the Atlantic Ocean to the Promised Land. One of the stories of the voyage relates that Brendan, wishing to celebrate Easter Mass, landed on a small island in the middle of the ocean. After celebrating Mass, Brendan and his companions built a fire on which to cook a meal and thus awakened the sleeping whale they had mistakenly identified as a small island. Terrified, the voyagers rushed to their ship and fled. Since then, St. Brendan has been associated with whales and large fish.
©: PD, text: www.swoyersart.com
tags: #St. Brendan #Whale #nova #Typis Transacta Navigatio
ref. # 073 -Saint Brendan
"St. Brendan's fame rests on the mythical adventure described in Brendan's Voyage, a 10th century romance of Brendan and a company of monks sailing the Atlantic Ocean to the Promised Land. One of the stories of the voyage relates that Brendan, wishing to celebrate Easter Mass, landed on a small island in the middle of the ocean. After celebrating Mass, Brendan and his companions built a fire on which to cook a meal and thus awakened the sleeping whale they had mistakenly identified as a small island. Terrified, the voyagers rushed to their ship and fled. Since then, St. Brendan has been associated with whales and large fish."also newpagebooks.blogspot.nl
©: James Christensen
tags: #saint brendan #james christensen
See also ref. #059 (Toscanelli´s map)
073a Saint Brendan -´The Brendan Voyage´
'The Brendan Voyage', cover of Tim Severin's bookThe accounts of his voyages were well known in past times, but now man are inclined to think it was all myth and make-believe.
But his voyage from Ireland to the North Americas has been reconstructed by British navigation scholar, Tim Severin, in 1976. He had meticulously worked to make sure that the leather skinned boat he had made was, for all intents and purposes, identical to the ´mythological´ boat, described in the 11th century book, ´Navigatio´, in which St. Brendan and the Irish monks crossed the North Atlantic centuries before the Vikings. He proved it could be done.
Severin sailed this boat from Ireland to Newfoundland via Iceland and Greenland, demonstrating the accuracy of its directions and descriptions of the places Brendan mentioned in his epic, and proving that a small boat could have sailed from Ireland to North America.
extensive article on Tim Severin and his other endeavours on Wikipedia
tags: #the brendan voyage #saint brendan #tim severin #James Christensen
ref. # 073b Saint Brendan -'How Saint Brendan found Judas Iscariot'
'How Saint Brendan found Judas Iscariot','The Book of Saints and Heroes' by Mrs. Lang (Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children)©: www.mainlesson.com
tags: #saint brendan #ireland
ref. # 073c Saint Brendan -Patron of Sailers
".. became famed for his voyages, particularly a seven-year journey to the Land of Promise, which he described in his epic saga Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis. It was tremendously popular in the Middle Ages and was translated into most European languages. Though scholars long doubted the voyage to the Promised Land he described in the Navigatio in the middle of the sixth century could have been to North America, as was sometimes claimed, some modem scholars now believe he may have done just that. In 1976-77, Tim Severin, an expert on exploration, following the instructions in the Navigatio, built a hide-covered curragh and then sailed it from Ireland to Newfoundland via Iceland and Greenland, demonstrating the accuracy of its directions and descriptions of the places Brendan mentioned in his epic.."©: www.catholictradition.org
tags: #saint brendan #ireland
073d Saint Brendan - -An incident from the Life of St. Brendan
An incident from the Life of St. Brendan, in which the English moor their ship on an "island" which turns out to be a whale. The Bestiary is using this incident to illustrate whales and how big they can be. The English are still hearing about this incident up through the 16th century - Olaus Magnus puts a picture of it on the Carta Marina.©: Bestiary - Cambridge MS Ii.IV.26 fol 54v
tags: saint #brendan, #bestiary, #
073e Saint Brendan - -Île San Borodon
map with the possible location of Saint Brendan Island©: CC https://blogcatedranaval.com
"Je fot savoir bon lai Breton,
Et de Merlin et de Foucon,
Del roi Artu et de Tristem,
Del chievre oil de St. Brendan".
link: PD Domenick DALY's extensive article on the Legend of Saint Brendan, via CELTIC REVIEW
tags: #saint #brendan, #borodon, #saint brendan island
