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Who wrote the Voyage of St. Brendan?
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In the context of Anglo-Norman literature, the Voyage of St. Brendan was written by Benedeit.1
It is considered perhaps the oldest purely narrative French poem written in octosyllabic couplets. While the original legendary tale, Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, was recorded in Latin prose between the mid-8th and early 10th century, Benedeitâs work represents a significant Anglo-Norman adaptation of this saint's life.123