Voyages and Adventures Bibliography

*Breatnach, Caoimhn: 'The transmission and structure of Immram Curaig Ua Corra.' riu 53 (2003),
pp. 91107.
[1.] Introduction; [2.] The prose and poetic version of ICUC; [3.] The structure of ICUC; [4.]
Linguistic evidence; [5.] Date of composition of extant ICUC. Concludes that extant narrative
represents a substantially modified form of an earlier narrative, some time after 1152.

Breatnach, Liam: Review of Samus Mac Mathna, Immram Brain: Brans Journey to the Land of
the Women, Celtica 20 (1988) 17792.

Burgess, Glyn S. and Strijbosch, Clara (eds.): The Legend of St. Brendan. A Critical Bibliography.
Dublin: RIA, 2000.

*Burgess, Glyn S. and Strijbosch, Clara (eds.): The Brendan Legend. Texts and Versions, The
Northern World 24, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2006.

Carey, John: The rhetoric of Echtrae Chonlai. CMCS 30 (1995) 4165.

Analyses the texts diction and narrative structure. Incl. translation (only of the spoken parts)
concordant with their interpretation.

*Clancy, Thomas Owen: Subversion at Sea: Structure, Style and Intent in the Immrama, in: The
Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature: An Anthology of Criticism, ed. Jonathan M. Wooding.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000, 194225

Dillon, Myles: Serglige Con Culainn. Medival and Modern Irish Series 14), Dublin: DIAS, 1975
(first published 1953).

Duignan, Leonie: The echtrae as an early Irish literary genre. Rahden: Leidorf, 2011.

*Dumville, David N., Echtrae and Immram: Some Problems of Definition, riu 27 (1976) 7394.

Edel, Doris: The Celtic West and Europe. Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church.
Dublin and Portland: Four Courts Press, 2001.

Eldevik, Randi: A Vergilian Model for the Immrama?, Proc. Harvard Celtic Colloquium 4 (1984)
18.

Hamel, A. G. van, ed., Immrama. Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 10. Dublin: Stationery Office,
1941.

Hamel, A. G. van, The Text of Immram Curaig Mildin, tudes Celtique 3 (1938) 120.

Heide, Eldar: Holy Islands and the Otherworld: Places Beyond Water, in: Torstein Jrgensen;
Gerhard Jaritz (eds.): Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind. (=The Muhu
Proceedings 2; CEU Medievalia 14), Budapest: Central European University Press 2011, 57-80.

*Herbert, Mire: Literary sea-voyages and early Munster hagiography, in: Black, Ronald, William
Gillies, and Roibeard Maolalaigh (eds.), Celtic connections: proceedings of the Tenth International
Congress of Celtic Studies, vol. 1, East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999. 182189.
Hillers, Barbara: 'Voyages between heaven and hell: navigating the early Irish immram tales.' PHCC
13 (1995) 6681.

*Hollo, Kaarina: Allegoresis and Literary Creativity in Eight-Century Ireland: The Case of Echtrae
Chonnlai, in: Joseph F. Eska (ed.): CSANA Yearbook 8-9: Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in
Honor of Edgar M. Slotkin. Proceedings of the Celtic Studies Association of North America.
Hamilton, New York: Colgate University Press 2011, 117-128.

Jackson, Kenneth: The Adventure of Laeghaire mac Crimhthainn, Speculum 17 (1942), 377-389.

Jacobsen, Peter C.: 'The Island of the Birds in the Navigatio sancti Brendani. in: Strijbosch, Clara,
and Glyn S. Burgess (eds.), The Brendan legend. Texts and versions, The Northern World 24, Leiden
and Boston: Brill, 2006. 99-116.

Lambert, Pierre-Yves: 'Les immrama ou rcits de voyages monastiques dans lIrlande mdivale.'
Britannia Monastica 11 (2007), pp. 6172.

Lffler, Christa Maria: The Voyage to the Otherworld Island in Early Irish Literature, Salzburg
Studies in English Literature 103, 2 vols., Salzburg: Institut fr Anglistik und Amerikanistik 1983.

Mac Cana, Proinsias: Mongn Mac Fiachna and Immram Brain, riu 23 (1972) 10242.

Mac Cana, Proinsias: On the Prehistory of Immram Brain, riu 26 (1975) 3352.
[1.] Analogues and sources; [2.] Imacallam Choluim Chille ocus ind claig; [3.] The concluding
section of the Imacallam; [4.] The conceptual antiquity of the Imacallam; [5.] Ritual question and
answer; [6.] Mag nolairg and Mag Fuinnside [relation to Lough Foyle].

*Mac Cana, Proinsias: The Sinless Otherworld of Immram Brain, riu 27 (1976) 95115. (cf. The
Otherworld Voyage) [1.] The interpretatio Christiana; [2.] The sinless Otherworld; [3.] The Land of
Women.

Mac Mathna, Samus: Immram Brain: Brans Journey to the Land of the Women.Tbingen: Max
Niemeyer, 1985.

Mac Mathna, Samus: The Irish Life of Saint Brendan: textual history, structure and date, in:
Strijbosch, Clara, and Glyn S. Burgess (eds.), The Brendan legend. Texts and versions, The Northern
World 24, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 117158.

*Mac Mathna, Samus: The structure and transmission of early Irish voyage literature, in:
Tristram, Hildegard L. C. (ed.), Text und Zeittiefe, ScriptOralia 58, Tbingen: Gunter Narr, 1994.
313357.

*Mac Mathna, Samus: 'Motif and episodic clustering in early Irish voyage literature', in:
Re(Oralisierung) 1996. 247262.

Mac Mathna, Seamus: Immram Brain Maic Febail. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Mac Mathna, Samus: The flotsam and jetsam of medieval Irish voyage literature, in: Celebrating
sixty years of Celtic studies at Uppsala University (2013), pp. 2544.

Maier, Bernhard: Imaginary Journeys among the Celts, in: Leif Sndergaard; Rasmus Thorning
Hansen (eds.): Monsters, Marvels and Miracles. Imaginary Journeys and Landscapes in the Middle
Ages. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 2005, 161-172.

Maier, Bernhard: Die Insel der Seligen und verwandte Vorstellungen in der keltischen
berlieferung, Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft 13 (2001/2002) 149-162.

*McCone, Kim: Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature, Maynooth Monographs
3, Maynooth: An Sagart 1990.

*McCone, Kim: Echtrae Chonnlai and the beginnings of vernacular narrative writing in Ireland: a
critical edition with introduction, notes, bibliography and vocabulary. MMIT, 1. Maynooth, 2000.

McNamara, Martin: 'Navigatio sancti Brendani. Some Possible Connections with Liturgical,
Apocryphal and Irish Tradition', in: Strijbosch, Clara, and Glyn S. Burgess (eds.), The Brendan legend.
Texts and versions, The Northern World 24, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 159-192.

Meyer, Kuno, and Alfred Nutt, The Voyage of Bran. Vol. 1 (=Grimm Library 4), London: David Nutt
in the Strand 1895 [text vii-99].

Murray, Kevin, ' The role of the cuilebad in Immram Sndgusa 7 Maic Riagla.' In The Otherworld
voyage in early Irish literature (2000), pp.187193.

Murray, Kevin: Baile in Scil and Echtrae Chormaic. in: Ogma [FS N Chathin] 2002. 195199.

Canann, Toms: The political context of the prose A version of Immram Sndgusa 7 Maic Ragla.
JRSAI 135 (2005) 130135.

Coilein, Sen: Echtrae Nerai and its analogues. Celtica 21 (1990) 427440.

* hAodha, Donncha: Some Remarks on the Happy Otherworld of the Voyage of Bran, in: Martin
McNamara (ed.), Apocalyptic and Eschatological Heritage. The Middle East and Celtic Realms.
Dublin and Portland: Four Courts Press, 2003. 137-143.

*OLoughlin, Thomas: Distant Islands: the Topography of Holiness in the Nauigatio sancti
Brendani, in: Marion Glasscoe (ed.): The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland and Wales.
Exeter Symposium 6, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. 1-20.

OMeara, John J.: The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land. Dublin: Dolmen
Press New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1978 (first published in limited edition 1976).

*Oskamp, H. P. A.: The Voyage of Mael Din. A Study in Early Irish Voyage Literature followed by
an Edition of Immram Curaig Maele Din from the Yellow Book of Lecan, in Trinity College, Dublin.
Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff 1970.

Patch, Howard Rollin: The Other World according to Descriptions in Medieval Literature. Smith
College Studies in Modern Languages, new series, 1, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1950
(reprint New York: Octagon Books 1970).

Sayers, William: Netherworld and Otherworld in Early Irish Literature, ZCP 59 (2012) 201-230.

Selmer, Carl: Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis from Early Latin Manuscripts. University of Notre
Dame Publications in Mediaeval Studies 16, Notre Dame (Indiana), 1959.
Stokes, Whitley: The Adventure of St Columbas Clerics, Revue Celtique 26 (1905) 130-170.

*Stokes, Whitley: The Voyage of the Hi Corra, Revue Celtique 14 (1893) 22-69.

Stokes, Whitley: The Voyage of Snedgus and Mac Riagla, Revue Celtique 9 (1888) 14-25.

*Stokes, Whitley: The Voyage of Mael Duin, Revue Celtique 9 (1888) 447-495; Revue Celtique
10 (1889), 50-95, 264.

Thrall, William Flint. "Vergil's "Aeneid" and the Irish "Imrama:" Zimmer's Theory." Modern
Philology 15.8 (1917) 449.

West, Mire. 'Immram Brain: Bran's Journey to the Land of the Women.' Studia Hibernica 25 (1990)
183-188.

White, Nora: Compert Mongin and three other early Mongn tales: a critical edition with
introduction, translation, textual notes, bibliography and vocabulary. MMIT, 5. Maynooth, 2006.

*Wooding, Jonathan M. (ed.): The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature. An Anthology of
Criticism. Dublin and Portland: Four Courts Press, 2000.

Zelzer, Fruehe irishe Amerikafahrten und monastische Reform zur Nav. S. Brendani Abbatis,
Wiener Humanishtische Blaetter 31(1989) 66-87.

*essential reading

Nb.
Tr na mBe (land of the living) / Tr fo Thuinn (land under the waves) / Mag Mell (plain of
sports/delightful plain / Tr na ng (land of youth) / Tr Tairngire (land of promise) / Emain Ablach
(Emain of the apples)

All these names essentially describe the same phenomenon: a land of eternal youth, beauty, abundance,
and joy, and a visit to this supernatural realm is a recurrent theme throughout medieval Irish literature.