Navigatio Brendani

…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…

…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 in a curragh (a small boat…