Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

The Irish hero Bran’s Mystical Voyage begins when, after being lulled to sleep by the magical music of a silver branch with white app...

Perhaps you don't tend to think of Arthur as a voyager?  Bear with me, and I'll explain. Some of the earliest mentions of Arthur c...

Although I said that the Odyssey was the grand-daddy of voyage stories, perhaps I was rash, for the story of Jason and the Argonauts is jus...

The sirens were originally young girls, the friends of Persephone, who were changed into birds with girls' faces after she was abducte...

A couple of quick ones this week. Two poems, in fact. Here's the first, and the second will be up just after the weekend.  I rememb...

 ' Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all...

In all kinds of mythologies there are stories about sailing across the sea to a mystical land.  Maybe peoples of all races and all times h...