Well, I am now going to deal with the ’silly, lying, or apocryphal ravings.’  The romance relates that on one occasion when Brendan was in a place called the Thicket, there came to him a man called Barint O’Neil, of the race of King Neil of IX.  Hostages.  This man told him that his disciple Marnock had left him, and founded an hermitage of his own in an island called Delight some, whither he himself afterwards went to visit him.  While he was there, they were one day together upon the shore, where there was a small boat, and then, to translate the precise words, ’he said unto me, “Father, go up into the ship, and let us sail westward unto the island which is called the Land of Promise of the Saints, which God will give unto them that come after us in the latter time.”  We went up into the ship therefore, and clouds covered us all round about us, so that hardly could we see the stern or the prow of the ship.  After the space, as it were, of one hour, a great light shone round about us, and there appeared a land wide and grassy, and very fruitful.  And when the ship was come to land, we went out, and began to go about, and to walk through that land for fifteen days, and we could not find the end thereof.  We saw there no plant without a flower, and no tree without fruit, and all the stones thereof are precious stones.  And upon the fifteenth day we found a river running from the west eastward.  And when we considered all these things, we doubted what we should do.  We were fain to pass over the river, but we waited for counsel from God.  While we discussed thus between us, of a sudden there appeared before us a man in great brightness, who called us by our names and saluted us, saying, “It is well done, good brethren, for the Lord hath revealed unto you that land which He will give unto his Saints.  For it is an half of the island up to this river; but unto you it is not given to pass over.  Go back therefore whence ye are come.”  When he said thus, we asked him whence he was, and by what name he was called.  And he said unto me, “Why dost thou ask me whence I am? and by what name I am called?  Why dost thou not rather ask as to this island?  For even as thou seest it now, so doth it remain since the beginning of the world.  Hast thou any need of meat or drink?  Hast thou been overcome of sleep, or hath night covered thee?  Know therefore of a surety:  there is always day here without blindness or shadow of darkness.  For our Lord Jesus Christ is the light thereof, and if men had not done against the commandment of God, they would have remained in the loveliness of this land.”  When we heard it, we were turned to weeping, and when we were rested, we straightway took our journey, and the man aforesaid came with us even to the shore where our ship was.  But when we got us up into the ship, the man was taken away from our eyes, and we came into the darkness aforesaid, and until the Isle of Delight some.’  Barint goes on to relate his conversation with Marnock’s disciples, and how they told him that they often knew by the fragrance of Marnock’s garments, when he had been away from them for a while and returned, that he had been in that garden of God, where, as it is expressed, ’night gathereth not, nor day endeth ... for the angels of God keep it.’