1. On James Carney’s view of the dependence of Imram Maíle Dúin on the Navigatio Brendani, and on the ‘happy otherworld’ as a Menschheitsgedanke; 2. On the relationship between Insula Deliciosa, Inis Caín, and Inis Subai.
Republ. in The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature, pp. 91-93.
Review article on works on Saint Brendan and voyage literature: The legend of St. Brendan: a critical bibliography, comp. by Glyn S. Burgess and Clara Strijbosch (Dublin: RIA, 2000); The Celtic west and Europe: studies in Celtic literature and the early Irish church, by Doris Edel
(Dublin: Four Courts, 2001); Studies in Irish hagiography: saints and scholars, ed. by John Carey, Máire Herbert and Pádraig Ó Riain (Dublin: Four Courts, 2001); Brendans Inseln: Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, ed. by Wolfgang Schüter (Wien: Edition per procura, 1997). Also provides detailed evidence that a speaker of Irish composed Navigatio Sancti Brendani, and suggests a terminus ante quem non of 825 based on a comparison with Dicuil’s De mensura orbis terrae.
Republ. in The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature, pp. 91-93.