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*** Suddenly the line "you must go where I cannot" makes more sense...

** Both Aidan and Aisling (in Aisling's Song) refer to the world as old and misty. The most common connotations arise -- intangible, mysterious, haunting... but it just doesn't fit, because they are spoken as wise words when the harsh reality of the world has just made its presence known hard and sure. But this is exactly when it is misty -- as in obscuring, as in hiding, between you and where you need to be, as in you cannot see but for the mist. Just as mist obscures one's view, the Abbot, so lost in his building of a wall that can't hold back the Norsemen, he cannot see the beauty in his drawings of that very wall. If you are commanded to never leave, you will never see the Forest, know only the prison and you cannot sing for release, or understand that a book be more than sheaves of parchment with ink marks upon them.

 

* [[Genius Bonus]]: They could have called this ''Genius Bonus: The Movie''.

*** Except that there's no real evidence that there ever was a "Celtic Christianity" or that it was either more or less tolerant than the Roman church.

***** I'll have to disagree with that. Syncretic Christianity? Passing Penance? Material focuses from Columbanus? Perhaps you mean that there was no unified opposition-strand of Christianity that could stretch over all of Western Europe, or even just the Celtic/Brythonic world. However, there were huge differences to those churches more sublimate to the Papacy, especially in the insular Isle. Given the high number of heresies that flourished until realignments occurred (if memory serves, it was the Synod of Rathbreasail in Ireland, with exceptions in Munster), it would appear that it was far more tolerant - or less aligned with, or simply less focused on assimilation of pre-Christian beliefs - than Roman Catholicism.

** Aidan is named after St. Aidan of Lindisfarne (died 651), a missionary from the island of Iona who was instrumental in spreading the Celtic branch of Christianity in northern England.

** The book's cover actually was stolen and has long since been lost, so the animators designed a plausible-looking cover from historical descriptions they pieced together. (And painstakingly traced the Chi Rho page and fully restored it). ''[[Shown Their Work|Whoa]]''.

** The battle with Crom Cruach might be a reference to the way Italian medieval painter Giotto demonstrated his skill to the Pope. If so, that scene is essentially Brendan's rite of passage as an artist.

 

* In [[The Secret of Kells]], when Bendan tells Aisling that Crom Cruach is all Pagan nonsense, I realized this; Aisling is a fey, and ''she'' is Pagan nonsense too. Of COURSE she's terrified of Crom! ~ Miao93

** Not just a few, either --according to the design drawings, [[Character Tags|older!Brendan]] was in his thirties. 'Nearly twenty years of being broken with grief, thinking he was what killed his twelve year old nephew....'

 

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