St. Brendans voyage

[Renton405]

Ive been reading the book “Midevil visions of heaven and hell before Dante” and I have been reading a story called st. brendans voyage. Where in around the 5th century irish monks went on a boat westward and found an island of Paradise. They actually went to many different islands, one of which was a large fish.

I am curious what the church’s current view on this. Is it still believed as a fable? or truth?

 

[michaeljking]

I am not sure the churches position, though In 1976, tim severin built a replica leather skinned boat to sail from ireland to america to recreate his voyage, via Iceland, using the text as a guide, and place names where irish monks had had settlements.

Tim severin encountered whales, ice flows volcanic activity (iceland)

and in the fair isles there was proof the irish Monks had definitely been there in their isolated communities.

 

[Renton405]

What about the island called the “Isle of the Blessed”… was this an actual island? or was it an island that was only for their eyes and no one else. What about the Jasconius sea monster?

I know Iceland to be a very ANTI-Catholic area. Their last bishop was beheaded in the 15 century and its all Lutheran. But it says the voyage was around the 5-6th century, way before protestantism came.