Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: D207007
Eine Variante der Brendan-Legende
Author: Rudolf Thurneysen
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Sources
Manuscript Sources- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 51005104, pp. 13-15. See Joseph van den Gheyn (ed.), Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Lamertin 1905-1907).
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 2324-2340, fo. 70b. See Joseph van den Gheyn (ed.), Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Lamertin 1905-1907).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 O 48, Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (vellum, early fifteenth century); for further details see Kathleen Mulchrone, T. F. O'Rahilly et al. (eds.), Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1926-70) MS 476, 1254-73.
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- Glyn Sheridan Burgess, Les fonctions des quatre éléments dans le Voyage de saint Brendan par Benedeit Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (Université de Poitiers, Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale 1995) 322.
- Clara Strijbosch, De bronnen van 'De reis van Sint Brendaan' (Hilversum 1995).
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- Clara Strijbosch, The heathen giant in the Voyage of St Brendan, Celtica 23 (1999) 36989.
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- Jonathan M. Wooding (ed.), The otherworld voyage in early Irish literature: an anthology of criticism. (Dublin 2000). [Contains various articles about the navigatio Brendani.]
- Clara Strijbosch, The seafaring saint: sources and analogues of the twelfth century Voyage of Saint Brendan (Dublin 2000).
- Clive Sneddon, Brendan the Navigator: a twelfth-century view, in: Thomas Liszka and Lorna Walker (eds.), The North Sea world in the Middle Ages: studies in the cultural history of north-western Europe (Dublin 2001) 21129.
- Jonathan Wooding, St Brendan's boat: dead hides and the living sea in Columban and related hagiography, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, Pádraig Ó Riain (eds.), Studies in Irish hagiography: saints and scholars (Dublin 2001) 77-92.
- W. R. J. Barron and Glyn Burgess (eds.), The voyage of Saint Brendan: representative versions of the legend in English translation (University of Exeter 2002).
- Jonathan Wooding, Fasting, flesh and the body in the St Brendan dossier, in: Jane Cartwright (ed.) Celtic hagiography and saints' cults (University of Wales 2003) 16176.
- Séamus Mac Mathúna, Review of Burgess and Strijbosch (2000), The Catholic Historical Review 90 (2004) 9596.
- Fernando Lillo Redonet and José Antonio González Marrero, A viaxe de San Brandán: ensaio e investigación (Santiago de Compostela 2004).
The edition used in the digital edition- Rudolf Thurneysen, Eine Variante der Brendan-Legende in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. Volume 10, Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer (1914) page 416420
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Created: Translation by Rudolf Thurneysen
Date range: 19131914.
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Language: [DE] The text is in German.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Irish.
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