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Vita metrica sancti Brendani
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A Latin poem (312 stanzas) on the voyage of St Brendan of Clonfert, translated or adapted from Benedeit's Old French poem on the subject. It is dedicated to Pope Alexander III and on stylistic grounds, its authorship is attributed to Walter of Châtillon. BHL 1445.
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[ed.] Wollin, Carsten, Saints’ lives by Walter of Châtillon: Brendan, Alexis, Thomas Becket, Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, 27, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2002.
7–48
[ed.] Martin, Ernst, “Lateinische Übersetzung des altfranzösischen gedichts auf S. Brandan”, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 16 (1873): 289–322.
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[ed.] Moran, Patrick F., Acta sancti Brendani: original Latin documents connected with the life of Saint Brendan, Dublin: William Bernard Kelly, 1872.
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>
45–84
Secondary sources (select)
Wollin, Carsten, “The Navigatio sancti Brendani and two of its twelfth-century palimpsests: The Brendan poems by Benedeit and Walter of Châtillon”, in: Clara Strijbosch, and Glyn S. Burgess (eds), The Brendan legend. Texts and versions, 24, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. 281–313.
