Alonely monastic scribe, toiling in some windswept eyrie on Europe's Atlantic fringe, bravely struggles to preserve the legacy of the Greco-Roman world from the encroaching barbarians. It is an image that modern Westerners-materially secure, but nervous about the longevity of their culture—find compelling. For its latest iteration, watch "The Secret of Kells"-a 75-minute animated film about early Ireland which has won acclaim in Europe and America. Gorgeous manuscripts with arcane symbols, wise old monastic teachers and marauders at the gate (Vikings, in this case) are enjoyably combined in this Franco-Belgo-Irish collaboration.
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