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The Legend of St Brendan: a Comparative Study of the Latin and Anglo-Norman Versions

For The Legend of Brendan, the author accessed Latin and Anglo-Norman manuscripts dating the tenth and thirteenth centuries respectively. This text also covers other vernacular versions of the legend (including Irish and Dutch), and a significant body of primary and secondary literature to unlock some of the cultural, theological and literary symbolism apparent in the texts (some of which was unclear to the later vernacular authors), as well as providing a comparative analysis between the two texts which was informed by the context in which each author was writing. The appendix represents the first line-by-line translation of the Anglo-Norman version.