A long time ago there was a monk named Brendan who lived in a poor cell on the Sliabh Daidche, by the western sea. He had been a great adventurer and traveller but was no longer a young man. Then one day he had a vision of a wonderful land that lay beyond the waters, a land served by angels where nobody aged. That night, in a dream, an angel spoke to him and said he would watch over him and guide him to the land.