Immram Curaig Ua Corra (The Voyage of the Corra Brothers’ Boat)
- Date of account
- Medieval Irish tradition; surviving versions in later manuscripts
- Location
- Atlantic and otherworldly waters; Ireland as point of departure
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
This Christianized Irish voyage narrative concerns the sons of a notorious family who undertake a penitential sea journey and encounter marvelous islands, strange beings, and spiritually significant landscapes. It is useful for comparison because maritime movement functions simultaneously as pilgrimage, punishment, and cosmological exploration. The account shares motifs with other immrama and with saintly voyages, but its manuscript transmission and dating are complex. Researchers should distinguish its penitential literary structure from claims that the episodes encode reliable geography, polar travel, or eyewitness testimony.
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