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How do you Sail to Heaven? The Airships of Clonmacnoise (Episode #26)
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Originally mentioned in 4 different annals of Ireland, collectively called the Annals of the Four Masters, the story of the Airship of Clonmacnoise was first mentioned in the 740s CE. While it has been retold numerous times throughout history, the base of the story remains the same. Specifically, during a gathering of many people a ship appears in the sky and lets down an anchor that snags on the earth. Then one of the crew from the ship in the air swims down to free the anchor but is stopped by the gathering crowd of onlookers. Sometimes the visitor drowns while being held back from returning to his ship. While other times he swims back and boards his ship which sails out of sight. So, why does so many different texts, including norse texts and even the Houston Post from 1897, report the same story?
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EPISODE RESOURCES
- Carey, John (1992). "Aerial ships and underwater monasteries: the evolution of a monastic marvel". Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 12: 16–28. JSTOR 20557234.
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome (2015). "The sea above". In Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome; Duckert, Lowell (eds.). Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 105–133. ISBN 9781452945675. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- McCaughan, Michael (Fall 1998). "Voyagers in the vault of heaven: the phenomenon of ships in the sky in medieval Ireland and beyond". Material Culture Review. 48.
- Kuno Meyer, "The Irish Mirabilia in the Norse Speculum Regale," Érin, 4 (1910)
- Gougaud, Louis (1924). "L'aéronef dans les légendes du Moyen Âge". Revue celtique (in French). 41: 356–357.
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