Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Ashe Geoffrey
Title : Land to the West St Brendan’s voyage to America
Year : 1962

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Long before Columbus brought his three little ships to the Bahamas, men had speculated about the existence of land over the Western Ocean. Probably indeed the Vikings actually crossed, by a different route, some centuries ahead of him. But even before the Vikings, there was a tradition set forth in writing which affirmed that the Irish sailor-saint Brendan had found his way in the sixth century to a mysterious coast far beyond the Atlantic. It is this tradition, and the basis underlying it, that Geoffrey Ashe examines in Land to the West. Was Brendan’s land real - the same in fact that later was to be called America. ...