Origins: traditional ballads Saint Brendan

Subject: Origins: traditional ballads Saint Brendan
From: Julia
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 08:00 PM

Has anyone found any real traditional songs about Brendan the Navigator?

Subject: RE: Origins: traditional ballads Saint Brendan
From: Robert B. Waltz
Date: 02 Mar 26 - 08:48 PM

Roud #39311 is "St. Brendan and the Albatross." There is no other mention of "Brendan" in either the Roud Index or the Traditional Ballad Index, except in place and performer names. There are recordings of "St. Brendan and the Albatross" on YouTube. I personally doubt that it is really traditional.

Given that St. Brendan, even if you accept the legends of his life, lived before the English language could really be said to exist, I don't think you'll find anything else in English. Maybe in Irish. But, even there, I would expect it to be literary.

Subject: RE: Origins: traditional ballads Saint Brendan
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 01:58 AM

I agree, i think it is modern

Subject: RE: Origins: traditional ballads Saint Brendan
From: Lighter
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 08:21 AM

Christy Moore wrote the lyrics in 1985.

Subject: RE: Origins: traditional ballads Saint Brendan
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Mar 26 - 04:47 PM

St.Brendan's Voyage - Christy Moore