Hell as a Geological Construct
Two documents dated from the ninth century speak of two concurrent locations of hell and both contain details of a high burning mountain and a burning pit. The better-known text is the Latin Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis, the account of which spurred Tim Severin in the late 1970s to take the rou...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/12563 2023-05-15T16:49:15+02:00 Hell as a Geological Construct Burrell, Margaret 2007-01-01 application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/view/12563 eng eng University of Toronto Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/view/12563/20035 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/view/12563 Copyright (c) 2015 Florilegium Florilegium; Volume 24 (2007); 37 - 54 2369-7180 0709-5201 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2007 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:48:46Z Two documents dated from the ninth century speak of two concurrent locations of hell and both contain details of a high burning mountain and a burning pit. The better-known text is the Latin Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis, the account of which spurred Tim Severin in the late 1970s to take the route supposedly taken by St. Brendan and to assert that the volcanic activity off the coast of Iceland was the most likely source of the phenomena described. Since volcanic eruptions can be dated accurately to within fifty years, this paper has used the geological data available to locate more precisely the likely eruption which gave rise to accounts of the terrestrial locations of hell. In addition, this paper uses geological details of Irish cave systems to suggest a location of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick alternative to that which is currently accepted. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals |
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Two documents dated from the ninth century speak of two concurrent locations of hell and both contain details of a high burning mountain and a burning pit. The better-known text is the Latin Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis, the account of which spurred Tim Severin in the late 1970s to take the route supposedly taken by St. Brendan and to assert that the volcanic activity off the coast of Iceland was the most likely source of the phenomena described. Since volcanic eruptions can be dated accurately to within fifty years, this paper has used the geological data available to locate more precisely the likely eruption which gave rise to accounts of the terrestrial locations of hell. In addition, this paper uses geological details of Irish cave systems to suggest a location of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick alternative to that which is currently accepted. |
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