The Voyage of Bran
A Celtic Otherworld Journey of Silver-Branch Enchantment, Deathless Islands, and Altered TimeBy Anonymous
Length1h 59m
About this audiobook
The Voyage of Bran (Immram Brain) is a landmark of medieval Irish voyage literature, recounting Bran mac Febal's journey across the western sea toward the Otherworld after hearing a mysterious song from a silver branch. Moving between prophetic vision, marvel narrative, lyrical dialogue, and episodic adventure, the text presents enchanted islands, immortal inhabitants, perilous temporal dislocation, and the haunting impossibility of returning unchanged. Its interweaving of pre-Christian Celtic motifs with Christian ideas about mortality, sin, paradise, and the limits of human knowledge places it within the rich tradition of the immrama, while its sophisticated prose and embedded verse reveal the literary culture of early medieval Ireland. The work is anonymous, as are many texts preserved in Ireland's medieval manuscript tradition, and survives in forms shaped by scribal transmission and later adaptation. Its author—or the learned milieu that produced it—drew upon native mythic materials, monastic learning, biblical and classical models of voyage, and the intellectual fascination with geography and the boundaries of the known world. The narrative's tension between oral legend and Christian literary reflection is central to its enduring complexity. This edition is especially rewarding for readers interested in Celtic mythology, comparative literature, medieval travel narratives, and the formation of Irish literary identity. The Voyage of Bran offers both the imaginative pleasure of an otherworldly adventure and a subtle meditation on longing, time, knowledge, and the cost of crossing cultural and metaphysical boundaries.
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GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Fantasy
Length1 hr 59 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 15, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Legends of Norseland (Illustrated Edition)
2Introduction
3The Voyage 6 of Bran son of Febal, and his Expedition 7 here below
4Appendix
5I. The Conception of Mongán.
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6II. A Story from which it is inferred that Mongán was Find mac Cumaill, and the cause of the death of Fothad Airgdech. 110
7III. A Story of Mongán.
8IV. These are the events that brought about the telling of 'Mongan's Frenzy.' 137
9V. The Conception of Mongán and Dub-Lacha's Love for Mongán.
10VI. From the Annals
11VII. Irische Texte iii. page 89.
12VIII. Irische Texte iii. p. 87.
13IX. From Gilla Modutu's poem Senchas Ban, written A.D. 1141, Book of Leinster, p. 140 a, 29.
14X. From Ms. Laud 613, p. 21.
15XI. From MS. Laud 615, p. 18.
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