The Life of St Brendan and His Prayer . Trans. with an Intro. and Notes by Gordon Barthos. Medieval Sources in Translation, 62. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2024, xii, 133 pp., 1 b/w ill, 1 map.

The life and travels of the Irish saint St. Brendan are well known by medievalists and many others, and he also enjoys considerable popularity even in modern-day Irish and other cultures. His vita and oratio were translated throughout the Middle Ages into a variety of European vernaculars, as nicely documented by The Voyage of Saint Brendan , ed. W. R. J. Barron and Glyn S. Burgess (2002; oddly, not even mentioned by Barthos in his new translation). The present volume makes available the vita and Navigatio plus the oratio based on the most trustworthy and oldest manuscript versions. Barthos intends to make available those important and highly influential texts to modern readers not fluent in (medieval) Latin, presenting texts as they circulated in the high Middle Ages parallel to the accounts of King Arthur and the Round Table and other famous saints.