Naked Hermit
Mary Wellesley: Blessed Isles, 5 March 2020
Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination
by Matthias Egeler.
Brepols, 357 pp., £100, October 2018,978 2 503 56938 3 Show More
by Matthias Egeler.
Brepols, 357 pp., £100, October 2018,
“... fallen angels.In Islands in the West, his book about geographical myths of the northwest Atlantic, Matthias Egeler discusses an episode in which Brendan and his companions come to the island of Paul the Hermit. Paul is 140 years old and has not eaten for sixty years (before that he was brought food by an obliging otter). He is clothed only in his own ... ”
