Brendan's journey

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The Brendan's journey (French Le Voyage de Saint Brendan ) is a work of old French literature from the first half of the 12th century.

The story of verse, which appears as a mixture of the legend of the saints , the story of a vision , a fairy tale and an adventure story, is one of the first examples of French-language entertainment literature. Its author is a cleric who is not known as a person and who calls himself Benediz (but in literary stories usually called Benoît or Benedeit). The 1834 verses are written in the Anglo-Norman dialect and in paired rhyming eight-syllables , i.e. H. the form that had meanwhile established itself in the French-language legend of saints. The work, preserved in six manuscripts, and thus apparently successful in its time, was dedicated to Queen Aelis of England around 1120 and was therefore intended to disperse the English royal court, which at that time was predominantly francophone.

In connection with the Latin Navigatio Sancti Brandani (10th century), which was then widespread throughout Western Europe, Benediz reports the (fictional) story of the historical Irish abbot Brendan († 578), who set out on a sea voyage with fourteen of his monks. This should lead him, as promised by a hermit, to paradise. On his seven-year odyssey he encounters many strange animal beings, finds various wondrous islands and the entrance to hell and finally paradise in the middle of a ring of fog. After an angel has led him and his family through his front yard, he returns to Ireland, where his piety makes him a saint.