The Voyage of St Brendan

The late W. R. J. Barron was Senior Research Fellow in the School of English, University of Exeter. He was President of the International Arthurian Society (British Branch) and Director of its Vinaver Trust. His books include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Manchester, 1998) and Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Vol. II (series editor) (Wales, 1999). Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. His Penguin Classics edition of The Lais of Marie de France has sold more than 150,000 copies. He is co-author of The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (with Douglas Kelly, D. S. Brewer, 2017). In 1999 he was made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and he is an Honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society.

In addition to the translations, the volume also contains useful introductory commentaries to each of the versions by the translators ... The valuable introductions present to the reader the current scholarship on the authorship, manuscripts, genre, and sources of each version and are extremely useful to both the scholar and student of the Brendan by Burgess and an extensive bibliography of both criticism and manuscripts.Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXIII

• Contents1 The Life and Legend of Saint Brendan Glyn S. Burgess2 The Latin Version John H. O'Meara and Jonathan M. Wooding3 The Anglo-Norman Version Glyn S. Burgess4 The Dutch Version Willem P. Gerritsen and Peter K. King5 The German Version Willem P. Gerritsen and Clara Strijbosch6 The Venetian Version Mark Davie7 The Occitan Version Margaret Burrell8 The Catalan Version Margaret Burrell9 The Norse Version Andrew Hamer10 English Versions - The South English Legendary Version; - Caxton's Golden Legend Version; W.R.J. Barron;Bibliography and List of Brendan Manuscripts