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There is a life of S. Brendan, singularly sober and free from 

 marvels in the Codex Salmanticensis, but there is also a long 

 story of his voyage quite independent and by an entirely different 

 writer. The former passes over all the wonders of the voyage 

 with very scant notice, the latter hardly touches on the facts of 

 his life, to dwell on his Sindbad-like adventures. See 

 O'Donoghue (D) Brendaniana, Dublin, 1893 ; Moran (P.F.) 

 Acta Sancti Brendani, Dublin, 1872. 



The Life of 8. Brendan is also in the Book of Lismore, 

 published in the Anecdota Oxoniensia, 1890, and in the Sala- 

 manca Codex of the Lives of the Irish Saints, Edinb., 1888. 



His day in the Felire of Oengus and other Irish Martyr- 

 ologies is May 16. 



In art he should be represented in monastic habit holding 

 a boat. 



S. Brevita, Virgin. 

 Lanlivery church is supposed to have had this dedication. 

 {see S. Yorch). 



S. Brioo, Bishop, Confessor. 



The Life of S. Brioc or Breoc, written by an anonymous 

 biographer, certainly not "shortly after his death" as Dom Plains 

 supposes, and hardly before the 9th century, has been printed 

 by him from a 10th or II th century MS. in the Analecta 

 BoUandiana for 1883. 



Brioc was originally called Briomagl and was the son of one 

 Cuerp, a princeling of Corotica, and a doubt has been expressed 

 whether Cardigan (Ceredigion) or Kerry be meant. M. de la 

 Borderie suggests Coria Otadenorum, Tedburg in Teviotdale, 

 but this is one of his random identifications not to be seriously 

 entertained. M. de la Borderie is admirable when on his own 

 Breton ground, but is untrustworthy when he deals with Britain. 



The name Brioc is akin to Brychan. 



That Brioc was a native of Cardigan hardly admits of ques- 

 tion. 



Ceredigion had been overrun and occupied by Irish Picts 

 before the 4th century. Indeed' Wales was tributary to the Irish 

 Crown, which extended its sway over Somersetshire and Devon 



