Caspar Plautinus
Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio: Nova Orbis India Occidentalis, 1621
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This is one of my favorite depictions of Brendan’s voyage. Note that not only has Brendan set up a full altar on the back of the whale, where his ship is actually beached but they are also off the coast of Africa and Spain (Hispania). All but two of Brendan’s followers on the whale are dressed like a Spanish explorers, and those look like colonial era galley’s they are sailing in. The uses that the legends of Brendan and of Madoc were put to in European claims to North and South America are fascinating.
For now this page will be used as an index to collect material related to Brendan the voyager, and maybe eventually Madoc.
Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis (Voyage of St. Brendan the Abbot) at Jonathan Wooding’s Celtic Christianity E-Library.
St. Brendan the Voyager
- Feast of Brendan the Voyager
- Brendan Returns
- Allegory in the Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Brendan and the New World
- James Christensen’s St Brendan
Hagiography
- The Sea Horse and the Whale Rider (Life of St David)
The Church Year in the Navigato
- The Isle of St. Ailbe (Advent)
- Sailing into Lent with St Brendan
- Holy Week with St Brendan
- Eastertide with Brendan and Company
- Pentecost Adventures: The Fighting Beasts
Vernacular Translation of the Legends of St Brendan
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