![]() ![]() 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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