Voyages 006 - 564 AD St. Brendan the Abbot's Voyage
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2020
- In 564 AD, an Irish monk is said to have sailed to North America from Ireland. The evidence is compelling and it has been proven that a person with only the methods and boatbuilding skills of the time, that it could have been accomplished.
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St. Brendan pray for us!
This DS Corpsman and Protestant side for decades is being confirmed this Easter and my saint is St. Brendan. Corpsman Up!
I sure hope Jeff’s family keeps his channel up, or at least saves the videos, what great stories to save for his grandchildren or great grandchildren to have down the road
That was a great story. You should definitely tell more maritime stories. Looking forward if you do!
Columbus knew of Brendan, and even visited Ventry, Ireland, where Brendan originally set off from, then visited Galway. Likely his Basque pilots knew the dangerous coast well.
And here is a report on a 1970's effort to repeat the adventure :
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20223962.html
Mr Spira,
So happy to find your work. I'm curious about Brendan's voyage. Notice it coincides with the timeline of Madoc's voyage of 562 A.D. from Wales. Blackett & Wilson say Madoc , brother of Arthur Ap Muerig Pendragon ll, was at sea and swept off course when a comet occurred over Wales. He returned ten years later with two dark skinned sons and told Arthur of the land to which he had been carried. Two expeditions confirmed his report, and in 574 Arthur led 700 ships to the new lands, and they were never heard from again. I now live at the Falls of the Ohio river, which apparently impeded their progress, and where they allegedly built their fort. The story goes they were wiped out 4 years later but Arthur's body was returned to Drystoke. What do you know about this? I hadn't noticed the dates corresponded so closely. Tell us what you know.
Thank you Mr. Spira for an interesting video. I was given a copy of The Brendan Voyage in the late 70's shortly after it was published. It was inspiring to read and helped feed my interest in boat building and voyaging. I will have to find a copy and read it again.
Jeff, thanks for a lifetime of information. I have been exploring your amazing website and resources. You are a national treasure. I will be checking your website for hours and days I'm sure to learn more.
St Brendan the Navigator He is also a patron saint of boatmen, mariners, travelers, elderly adventurers, whales, the United States Navy, and also of portaging canoes.
great research, well presented and very interesting. Thank you
Interesting point on St Finbarre, I wasn’t aware of this. There’s the Cork Finbarre who resided between Cork and Kerry mountains who was a boatsman and is the patron saint and founder of Cork. But like you say it was a prominent name but a fact I will look into more. I’m from Cork and live 30 mins from Finbarre’s first church near Gougannebarra. Thank you again.
Fascinating
Thanks, great stuff.... 👌🙏🙏🙏
Very cool recount of St. Brendan's voyage across the Atlantic...
Thanks for sharing this one Rev Nesbitt. I love such history for sure.
This story is amazing. Are you still active making videos ?
Excellent presentation. Thx.
Thanks you very much , I like how u explain the islands along the way , really fun thanks
Very interesting
Awesome telling of some pretty obscure history. Very clear and concise. I have no doubt that Columbus would have heard of Saint Brenden but I don't think his maps or story is what prompted ole Columbus. His father in law was a member of The Knights of Christ, the renamed Templars. Columbus obtained a map from his father-in-law. Now if it was given or Christopher borrowed it is up for debate. The only thing about that voyage that is not up for debate is that it changed both the old world and the new for all time.
Very interesting! Thank you, sir.👌👍
It's said in places in West Virginia there's proof of saint brendan being there way before colombus I believe its on walls in caves or something
He landed in Newfoundland on June 26th 1977, that was a hellofa long voyage !
The location where the Titanic struck the iceberg was farther west and south, not between Iceland and Greenland. It is correct there is a north-south flowing current, the Labrador current, that sends icebergs into the region east of Newfoundland.
People dismiss this story because of the way he describes what he seen, but it was back in a time it was ogham writing, so there was no words for things they had never seen before. Plus these were god fearing monks. They would never question what they were seeing. He spoke of a black rock floating in the water that was actually a monster fish. That would have been the first time a European had seen a whale.
One can only wonder: IF St. Brendan and his Irish Monks were gone for 14 years, they MUST have stopped somewhere and setup more permanent quarters rather than live aboard their small craft that entire time. There have been rock structures found, in I believe Massachusetts, that look very much like the pre-historical, Irish Beehive structures I've seen on the Dingle Peninsula of South-west Ireland. Could it BE that these similar structures found on America's East Coast, were the permanent living quarters for these men?
I have read that Columbus carried a copy of the navigatio with him.
Great video by the way.
There are also accounts of him making it to the azores
A religious text using Ogham inscribed on a rock in West Virginia, and dating to 500-800 A.D. I wonder if the writer felt is was closer to pictographs, and thus easier to explain ( to the native inhabitants ) than if Latin had been used ?
Experts always miss the important part of this narrative.
The natives of Greenland etc would visit Northern Britain. It worked both ways. Also Bristol merchants were most likey visiting the North East coast of America in the 1450s. Remember The last European colony survived in Greenland till the early 1400s.
I believe, based on the evidence, that Brendan did make the voyage and return.
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My biggest question is how did they keep from starving for 14 years? Foraging in winter in strange lands would be very risky. Many of the Jamestown settlers died of starvation or from Indians.
As I brought up, they were fishermen and caught sea birds on their journey as ocean travelers did then. Staying near the coasts, there were clams, oysters and crabs that would have been easy to get to. Most of the Europeans who came later were not seapersons, but rather farmers and foragers.
@@tjkid07 Hey, thanks for replying. I heard you mention the birds and fish and realize foods may have been more plentiful to forage back then, I was just curious how they survived long voyages and also in winter times when conditions can be brutal. Like I said many people in Jamestown starved to death. When I hear of people making journeys of years I think not starving had to be their biggest accomplishment.
@@RobbsHomemadeLife well it says they landed in a place with a lot of fruit. Landing in Florida was way different than landing in Mass or Virginia. And it says they were attacked by small dark people. They must have been either lucky or more innovative than a group attached to a specific area.
@@tjkid07 Interesting they said "they were attacked by small dark people". This would not be a description of most Indigenous people in the New World as early writings said they were taller than Europeans.
Have you ever heard of fishing ?
The dates for the stone carving is somewhat questionable. I understand Dr. Pyle supposedly dated them using lichen growth although he was not an expert in lichenometry. There are a lot of variables in the science making it a very difficult dating method. I have seen so-called lichen dating experts simply look at a site for a few minutes and make pronouncements on dates. This is not possible.
vows of chastity were a specific requirement in the late 500 s
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The Celtic Cross, so common, is likely the pre-christian image of Bel, the sun, also Apollo, rather nasty deities. Still, as a navigation instrument it is likely ancient. Problem is the sea-peoples way before Brendan, have a very bad reputation, even with advanced techniques - the Fomorians for example. Like today, advanced technology in the hands of a degenerate culture, is a major problem. Bel (a child sacrifice cult) was christianised. Brendan surely knew the ancient annals, well documented, and was he then actually looking for followers of Bel, previously having sailed, to convert? He likely expected those to be rather nasty.
Could have doesnt mean he'd hv the nerve. Lots of dangers and superstition to make a person think twice
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway
Fascinating