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[Saint Brendan, 484-577, figurative map of St. Brendan's legendary voyage; shows Mass being said on the back of a whale] – Antique Wall Map

[Saint Brendan, 484-577, figurative map of St. Brendan's legendary voyage; shows Mass being said on the back of a whale] — antique map
[Saint Brendan, 484-577, figurative map of St. Brendan's legendary voyage; shows Mass being said on the back of a whale]. Antique map from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few medieval voyage tales have lasted as long as the story of Saint Brendan, the Irish monk said to have sailed the Atlantic in search of a promised land. This 1621 engraving turns the legend into a figurative map, charting the route as a series of islands and showing the monks saying Mass on the back of a whale, which they had taken for solid land until it moved. The story comes from the Latin *Navigatio Sancti Brendani*, a text that circulated widely across Europe for centuries and shaped how readers imagined the western ocean long before accurate charts existed.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes1621
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,258 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126886

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