![]() ![]() ![]() The dangerous voyage eventually takes them to an island (known now as Skellig Michael). They assemble their small boat with supplies, but overload the vessel and must leave most of this essential cargo behind. The three men set out on a pilgrimage to locate this island with the intention of establishing a monastic retreat. One is Trian and the other Cormac, an older monk who played the lyre the previous evening. In the middle of the night Artt wakes the abbot to tell him that he’s had a dream: a vision of an island in the sea where he sees himself with two others. Moreover, he is not just a scholar priest Artt has also spread the light of God, and is rumoured to have converted whole tribes across Europe. ![]() Esteemed by all the other monks, Artt is ‘said to have read every book written, and has copied out dozens’. Also at the meal is Artt, a travelling monk with ‘the bearing of a warrior king’ and the most exciting visitor Trian has ever beheld. We are introduced to Trian, a 19-year-old monk who is ‘still growing, and always hungry’. In a small seventh-century monastery on the coast of Ireland, the monks are celebrating the first fast day after Easter. ![]()
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