Brendan the Navigator

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we look at the life - a legendary voyage - of Irish monk Saint Brendan of Clonfert (aka Brendan the Navigator, Brendan the Voyager, and Brendan the Bold). We dive into the text of Brendan's voyage to paradise - and investigate what - if any of it - has a place in the real world. Could he have - as some people claim - have reach North America a thousand years before Columbus? The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
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0:10.5	You can hear it wherever you get your podcasts and its name tells part of the story.
0:14.8	The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science.
0:20.0	Seth and I are the hosts.
0:21.6	Seth is a scientist.
0:22.6	I am Molly and I'm a science journalist and we talk to people smarter than us and we
0:27.0	have fun along the way.
0:28.4	The show is called Big Picture Science and as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you
0:32.2	get your podcasts.
0:39.6	Hello and welcome to the Explorers Podcast.
0:48.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:50.4	I'm going to start by saying that today's topic, Brendan the Navigator, is a difficult
0:54.4	one.
0:55.4	I have always wanted to cover, but figuring out exactly how to do so was always the challenge.
1:00.7	And that's because Brendan's story is, mostly myth, but maybe rooted in reality.
1:06.5	And trying to figure out exactly how to present such a story is just not that simple.
1:10.7	This is because Brendan was a very real and very important man in his lifetime.
1:15.6	He was one of the early Irish monastic saints and is one of the 12 apostles of Ireland.
1:20.5	Those are very real things.
1:22.0	However, it is for his legendary voyage in search of paradise that he is most remembered.
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