Aspidochelone

A reevaluation is required of the nature, scale, and timing of the human colonization of the Faroes and the wider North Atlantic region." So I totally know what all of those words mean, but for the sake of this podcast, I'm saying that Saint Brendan was on the Faroe Islands in the 500s or sixth century.

Anyway, the men left but did not find the paradise of the birds as their third islands because they found another islands, landed on it, and started to set up camp to make supper, all but Brendan, who stayed in the boat because he knew something about the, quote, "island." And it turns out that he was right because they actually landed on a big fish named Jasconius, a fish that was so big he was trying to eat its own tail.

What is weird is that Brendan was fully okay letting his men walk all over the back of this huge fish in the first place, and he already knew what it was.

Maybe as a man of God, he was all about trials and testing the loyalty or trust in their God.

And straight away, violence and life despising war, it savaged the monster with its burning jaws." Then Brendan says, "Look my sons on our great Redeemer that even its heeds ...

Look my sons on our great Redeemer that even this heeds, it's Heaven's keeper.

And as it goes, so expects the end safe in the might of the Lord's defense." So the men seem to have had a divine protector guardian fish that guarded them from a fish that maybe was friends with Jasconius and was getting revenge for the fire that was put on his friend's back earlier.

I made that part up.