2004
Volume 49, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2542-6583
  • E-ISSN: 2590-3268

Abstract

Abstract

A curious anecdote in Irish, ascribed to St. Augustine, from manuscript Rawlinson B 502 (12th century) is edited and translated into English. The text describes a monster living in the Indian Ocean who attacks the sun and causes the tides by swallowing and spewing the waters. In a commentary, following the next, the monster is connected with the biblical monster Leviathan by identifying sources which may have been used for this Irish text. The main texts proposed are the Vulgate (especially the book of ), Theodore of Mopsuestia’s commentary on the in the Latin translation by Julian of Eclanum and a cosmographical treatise by pseudo-Bede.

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