The Brendan Legend

"The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions" deals with the vast textual tradition relating to on the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. The book deals with the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts and it highlights the versatility of textual traditions throughout Western Europe.

Glyn S. Burgess, Docteur de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne) (1968) is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively on the legend of St Brendan, Wace and the Lais of Marie de France. He is the joint author, with Clara Strijbosch, of The Legend of St Brendan: A Critical Bibliography (Dublin, 2000).
Clara Strijbosch, Doctorate (summa cum laude) 1995 in Medieval Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, is an independent researcher and literary critic and has taught in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Galway, Düsseldorf, Durban and Vienna. In 2000 she published The Seafaring Saint (Dublin).