Saint Brendan's Islands
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Excerpt from a map of West Africa by Guillaume Delisle , 1707. The legendary island of San Borondon is recorded west of the Canary Islands .
The Saint Brendan Islands are phantom islands that are said to be west of northern Africa . They are named after the Irish monk Saint Brendan , who undertook a legendary sea voyage ( Navigatio Sancti Brendani ) in the 6th century and supposedly discovered these islands. For centuries, these islands were repeatedly shown on maps and their existence was considered a fact by scholars of the Middle Ages .
literature
- Urs Bitterli : The discovery of America. From Columbus to Alexander von Humboldt . Munich, 1991 ISBN 978-3-406-35467-0
Web links
- San Borondón, la isla descubierta (Spanish) Note on navigation: Primero = first, Anterior = back, Siguiente = forward, Ultimo = last (according to the Spanish article, the exhibition is an artistic fiction about the legend of San Borondón)