Saint Brendan
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Like many saints, Brendan lived during the 6th century, but writings about him were not begun until the 8th, and the account of his famous sea voyage was not set down for yet another hundred years. His sect was called the Ciarraighe Luachra, and their in
fluence produced a Brendan cult popular throughout medieval Britain.
During the 1970s, a band of curious Irishmen decided to see if you could really travel in a leather boat, as Brendan was said to have done, all the way from Tralee Bay in Kerry to the coast of Newfoundland. So they had a "re-creation" vessel painstakingl
y sewn together with the help of craftsmen, got themselves blessed by a local cleric, and set off.
They could hardly do more than lay down in the boat, and when their supplies got soaked they had to live on seabirds. Yet they saw things which must have inspired the fables in Navigatio Brendani, and they even survived a hull puncture in iceberg
strewn waters. Amazing!
The Brendan Voyage
The story above is fully documented from launch to landing.
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