Where were Middle Gaelic Glenn na Leóman and Inis Salutóiris ?

An eleventh-century poem on Brendan’s pilgrimages h a recently been edited by Professor Thomas Owen Clancy, who draws a ttention to its outstanding interest and numerous problems. Earlier scholars saw the poem, beginning Mochen, mochen, a Brénaind ‘Welcome, welcome, Brendan’, and surviving in the Book of Leinster and Book of Uí Mhaine, as from a lost life of the saint. 1 But Clancy rejects that. He dissociates the poem from St Brendan almost entirely, taking it as a poem of welcome to an Irish king, or perhaps abbot, addressed allusive ly as ‘Brendan’, who had links with Clonfert (St Brendan’s foundation), and who made (and returned from) a pilgrimage to Rome, Mount Zion, th e Jordan, and even Taprobanê or Sri Lanka. 2 This amazing journey included fuirech ic hÍ ‘staying in Iona’, which supplies a convenient link with a journal of Scottish history, especially as it also helps shed light on the Latin life of St Serf of Culross. Clancy has the advantage of two previous editions w ith commentary. 3 Yet the text still offers difficulties. This note discusses two of them, in stanzas three and seven (in Clancy’s ed ition):