A Reading List of Saints, Myths, Monks, & Assorted Sea Voyagers
Bede's Life of St Cuthbert
Life of St Wilfrid
Adomnán's Life of St Columba
From A Celtic Miscellany:
A Storm at Sea
The Hermit's Hut
The Hill of Howth
The Mist
The whole section on Magic
The whole section on Religion
The Voyage of St Brendan
The Voyage of Máel Dúin
The Voyage of the Uí Chorra
The Voyage of Snedgus and Mac Riagla
The Voyage of Bran
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Tennyson's Voyage of Maeldune
Tolkien's Death of St Brendan
The Odyssey
Kingsley The Heroes
The Mabinogion
Chrétien de Troyes Perceval (but really all of his Arthurian Romances)
Malory's Tale of the Sangrail (& realistically I will end up rereading the Morte in both the Baines and Cooper editions I have)
Strassburg's Tristan
Tennyson's Idylls of the King
The Song of Roland
The Lais of Marie de France, especially
Guigemar
Le Fresne
Bisclavret
Lanval
Les Deux Amants
Chevrefoil
The Aeneid (the first 6 books for now)
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Mahabharata
Peter Brown Cult of the Saints
Other things that are (sort of) on theme but aren't on the main list for whatever reason:
The Name of the Rose
Navigatio
L'Île des Pingouins
In the Falcon's Claw
The Cadfael books
Cornwell's Excalibur trilogy (& others probably. He has one on the Grail, no?)
Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur Trilogy (childhood nostagia)
Tim Severin's documentaries attempting some of these voyages
Narziss and Goldmund
This is a working list that I'll be adding things to and rearranging as I go. As it stands, it's a mix of things I need to read for my research and future projects and things I'm reading for fun (I am the number one fan of monks on boats going places). I'll definitely be adding a lot of Hindu and Buddhist texts to this, I just need to pick which ones would be most relevant and useful or interesting. Ditto with Catholic and Orthodox commentaries on the apocalypse. I'll probably also read some 20th century USAmerican texts from certain branches of Protestantism, but that's for later. Oh and so much theory + science (Durkheim, Levi-Strauss, Lifton, Berger, ...). And finally I will definitely be adding so many echtrae to the list.
