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Recognition that the Anglo-French adapter of the Latin Voyage of Saint Brendan had two mental nautical models, the leather-bottomed Irish boats of his written source and the Norse-derived clinker-built hulls of his own day and age assists in clarifying many scenes in the vernacular saint’s life and thereby adds precision to our understanding of medieval nautical technology.
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Sayers, W. The Maritime and Nautical Vocabulary of Le Voyage de saint Brendan . Neophilologus 97, 9–19 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-011-9295-8
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