Three young clerics and their cat, the navigation o of the order of st. Barinthus turns up again in geoffrey of monmouths vita merlini, c. Many versions exist that narrate how he set out on the atlantic ocean with sixteen monks although other versions record fourteen monks and three. Navigating the use of biblical numerology in nauigatio sancti. Hic fratres invenerunt duos prophetas enoc et eliam qui locuti sunt eis in paradiso delitiarum.
This page was last edited on 8 january 2019, at 20. Dorothy bray, allegory in the navigatio sancti brendani, viator, 26 1995, p. Navigatio sancti brendani abbatis latin faroestamps. She observes that although familiar motifs make otherworlds immediately recognizable, the challenges posed by attempts to conceptualize their specificity and alterity remain to be addressed. The island is the abode of nine maidens, morgen and her sisters. The voyage of saint brendan, journey to the promised land. Jahrhundert ist diese erzahlung, in einige sprachen ubersetzt, in ganz europa verbreitet. Navigatio brendani legendary christian tale britannica. A study of the latin manuscripts of the navigatio sancti brendani preserved navigatio was written toward the end of the tenth century 8, was the starting point of one particular manuscript branch which reached out toward southern germany and touched such cities as ratisbon, ranshofen and salzburg, thus becoming the source for numerous southern german and austrian copies. He and his followers are said to have discovered it while travelling across the ocean and evangelising its islands. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Fantasy and history in medieval literature, aisling byrne offers a fresh and compelling exploration of the otherworld in the medieval literatures of the british isles. Exploratory navigation for runners through geographic area classification with crowdsourced data. Ein lateinischer and drei deutsche texte, published by eduard besold in erlangen in 1871.
Nauigatio sancti brendani abbatis the voyage of st. Brendan by benedeit a poem of the early twelfth century e waters on. A study of the latin manuscripts of the navigatio sancti. The account of his voyage passed from lip to lip for generations until a ninthcentury irish monk finally put it to paper in a latin text entitled navigatio sancti brendani the voyage of. Handbook for liturgical studies volume v book summary. It is loosely based on the latin navigatio sancti brendani and shows influence of 12th century spielmannsdichtung. Brendan is primarily renowned for his legendary journey to the isle of the blessed as described in the navigatio sancti brendani abbatis voyage of saint brendan the abbot of the ninth century. Insgesamt sind nach forschungen des amerikanischen gelehrten carl selmer rund 120 versionen erhalten.
Much work has been done, however, and many important insights have been gained, in the generations that have passed since warren wrote. This work has been submitted to nectar northampton. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This book aims to question the term marginal itself, to hear the voices talking across borders and not only to or through an english centre. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Liturgical time and space contains the concluding material for an integral study of the liturgy. Navigatio sancti brendani in einer handschrift des spaten 10. Among the numerous books which deal with the legend, the following are important. The final volume in the handbook for liturgical studies series, volume v. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The immense popularity of the latin version encouraged many vernacular translations, including a twelfthcentury anglonorman reworking of the narrative which excises much of the devotional material seen in the ninthcentury navigatio sancti brendani abbatis and changes the.
Responsibility edited with introduction and notes by carl selmer. The legend of st brendan is a study of two accounts of a voyage undertaken by brendan, a sixthcentury irish saint. Pdf handbook for liturgical studies liturgical time and. For treatments of the allegorical perspective of the text, see dorothy ann bray, allegory in the. Navigatio sancti brendani abbatis a work whose manuscripts date to the 10th century describes the voyage undertaken by saint brendan of clonfert cca 484577 to find the socalled promised land of the saints. Intendevi navigation sanctis brandani navigatio sancti brendani. St barri the navigatio sancti brendani abbatis was a medieval bestseller, over a hundred manuscripts have survived influencing later works. Il saggio pubblica ledizione del volgarizzamento veneziano della navigatio sancti brendani contenuto nel manoscritto paris, bibliotheque nationale.
Brendan a second available text is vita prima sancti brendani first life of st. The concept of margins denotes geographical, economic, demographic, cultural and political positioning in relation to a perceived centre. Riunendo con profonda originalita e personalita echi di molteplici tradizioni. Wie dieser bedeutungswandel zustande gekommen sein mag, kann man in 116, 7 er kennen, wo es hei. It opens with a preliminary notion of time and space, before discussing in detail three types of liturgical celebrations on which time and space have a direct and. The great 12thcentury roman dalexandre, a roman dantiquite based on and developing the early greek romance. Dumville, david, two approaches to the dating of nauigatio sancti brendani, studi medievali, seria a treia, 29 1988, p.
Nauigatio sancti brendani abbatis the voyage of st brendan the abbot source. A literary approach to sainthood through old french hagiography of the twelfth century. Thresholds le soglie deus intelligit et non credit. Navigatio fabulosa sancti brendani ad terram repromissionis scripta est ab ignoto irlandico circa annum 900. Le vain siecle guerpir phyllis johnson, brigitte cazelles published by the university of north carolina press johnson, phyllis and brigitte cazelles. The composition of the navigatio sancti brendani abbatis the geographer dicuil describes the desertion of the faeroes in 795, and the earliest surviving manuscript dates from around 950, which gives us some indication of the dates of the navigatio probably from the ninth century. Saint brendans island, also known as saint brendans isle, is a phantom island or mythical island, supposedly situated in the north atlantic somewhere west of northern africa. The oldest account of the legend is in latin, navigatio sancti brendani, and belongs to the tenth or eleventh century. Introduzione, traduzione italiana con testo latino a fronte a cura di r.