Abstract:Introduction: literature in Britain and Ireland to 1150 clare a. lees Taking to sea The Parker Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 891 records that Dub Sláine, Mac Bethad and Máel Inmain crossed the Irish Sea in a rudderless boat, without sails and with little food. The three risk-takers did not care whether or not their food ran out or where their journey or pilgrimage 'for Godes lufan' took them, yet they landed in Cornwall and travelled on to the Anglo-Saxon court of King Alfred the Great. Immediate… Show more
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