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About the name
- Origin
- Irish
- English version
- Brendan
- Variants
- Bréanainn
- Stronghold region
- Munster
Overview
The modern Irish form of Bréanainn, the name of the famous voyaging saint of Clonfert.
The story behind Breandán
Saint Brendan of Clonfert sailed in a leather-hulled curragh from Kerry seeking the Isle of the Blessed; the Navigatio Sancti Brendani records his fantastical voyages and inspired Tim Severin's 1976 reconstruction crossing of the Atlantic.
Mythology & legend
Non-mythological; 6th-century Irish saint and explorer.
Did you know?
Saint Brendan the Navigator may have reached North America nearly a thousand years before Columbus.
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