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Brewer's: Island of St. Brandan
The flying island, the supposed retreat of King Rodrigo. So called from St. Brandan, who went in search of the Islands of Paradise in the sixth century.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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