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BRENNER PASS 495
been See also:born at See also:Tralee in See also:Kerry in A.D. 484. The Irish See also:form of his name is Brennain, the Latin Brendanus. See also:Medieval historians usually See also:call him See also:Brendan of Clonfert, or Brendan son of Finnloga, to distinguish him from his contemporary, St Brendan of See also:Birr (573). Little is known of the See also:historical Brendan, who died in 578 as See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of a See also:Benedictine monastery which he had founded twenty years previously at Clonfert in eastern See also:Galway. The See also:story of his voyage across the See also:Atlantic to the " Promised See also:Land of the See also:Saints," afterwards designated " St Brendan's See also:Island,'" ranks among the most celebrated of the medieval sagas of western See also:Europe. Its traditional date is 565–573. The See also:legend is found, in See also:prose or See also:verse and with many See also:variations, in Latin, See also:French, See also:English, Saxon, Flemish, Irish, Welsh, See also:Breton and Scottish Gaelic. Although it does not occur in the writings of any Arabian geographer, several of its incidents—such as the landing on a See also:whale in See also:mistake for an island—belong also to Arabic folk. literature. Many of Brendan's fabulous adventures seem to be borrowed from the See also:half-See also:pagan Irish See also:saga of See also:Maelduin or Maeldune, and others belong also to Scandinavian See also:mythology. The See also:oldest extant version of the legend is the 11th See also:century Navigatio Brendani.
St Brendan's island was See also:long accepted as a reality by geographers.
In a Venetian See also:map dated 1367, in the See also:anonymous See also:Weimar map of 1424, and in B. Beccario's map of 1435, it is identified with See also:Madeira. See also:Columbus, in his See also:journal for the 9th of See also:August 1492, states that the inhabitants of See also:Hierro, See also:Gomera and Madeira had seen the island in the See also:west; and See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin See also:Behaim, in the globe he made at See also:Nuremberg in the same See also:year, places it west of the Canaries and near the See also:equator. During the 16th century the progress of exploration in these latitudes compelled many cartographers to locate the island elsewhere; and it was marked about roo m. west of See also:Ireland, or afterwards among the West Indies. But in See also:Spain and See also:Portugal the older belief as to its situation was maintained. In 1526 an expedition under Fernando See also:Alvarez See also:left See also:Grand See also:Canary in See also:search of St Brendan's island, which had again been reported as seen by many See also:trust-worthy witnesses. In 1570 an See also:official inquiry was held, and a second expedition undertaken, by Fernando de Villalobos, See also:governor of See also:Palma. Similar voyages of See also:discovery were made by the Canarians in 1604 and 1721; and only in 1759 was the apparition of St Brendan's island explained as an effect of See also:mirage.
Among the numerous books which See also:deal with the legend, the following are important: See also:Die altfranzosische Prosaubersetzung von Brendans Meerfahet, by C. Wahlund (See also:Upsala, 1900) ; La" Navigatio Sancti Brendani" in antico Veneziano, by F. Novati (See also:Bergamo, 1892) ; Zur Brendanus-Legende, &c., by G. See also:Schirmer (See also:Leipzig, 1888); See also:Les Voyages merveilleux de St.
Brendan, &c., by F. See also:Michel (See also:Paris, 1878); and Acta Sancti Brendani . . . . See also:Original Latin Documents connected with the See also:Life of St Brendan, by P. F. See also:Moran (See also:Dublin, 1872).
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