Navigatio Brendani | legendary Christian tale | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• In romance: The marvellous
  …written down in the 9th-century, Navigatio Brendani, and later widely translated and adapted, wanders among strange islands on his way to the earthly paradise—these likewise favour the marvellous. The great 12th-century Roman d’Alexandre, a roman d’antiquité based on and developing the early Greek romance of Alexander the Great (the Alexander…
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Saint Brendan’s legend

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  In St. Brendan
  …Christian tale of sea adventure, Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (“Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot”). This Irish epic, a narrative masterpiece, was recorded in Latin prose sometime between the mid-8th and early 10th century. According to the Navigatio, Brendan makes an astonishing Atlantic journey with other monks to the “Promised…
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