Secret of Kells - Pangur Ban

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  • I love the irony of the movie...a Pagan forest spirit helps a young monk write a Bible.

  • Aishling's fear seems to be more of the nature that she is afraid of being in an enclosed, man-made space, and thus cannot enter a dwelling. It's also very likely she cannot touch worked iron, hence why she resists touching the bars and cannot touch the key herself. She cannot go, so she uses a creature of the earth, Pangurban, to help, with her natural magic and guidance directing the cat.

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  • Nil mo fadai ag oibreadh :/

  • Ta teanga an gaeilge comh iontach! :)

  • 1:27 - Does anyone notice the shadow being cast behind Pangurban? Because I did. And it looks a bit creepy.

  • lovely voice

  • @oipolloi1 scéal*

    Tá, tá sé. MBocht in Éirinn Tá fhulaing an oiread sin cheana féin. Bhí an scéal suimiúil, mar sin féin.

  • @DraoiSorcha

    tá sé an shcéal go Éirinn, is é!?

  • I just find it funny that Brendan witnesses so much Pagan magic over Christian miracles but remains Catholic. XD lol

  • @darthroden yes, exactly! It seems to me that more than the book itself, the secret of Kells is that without Aishling, the book would not have been saved or completed.

  • @existtraiesc It's supposed to represent that it's still Pangur Ban, but just that he's gone into spirit form.

  • @darthroden

    When Christianity was introduced to a lot of places it got mixed with the religion and culture that inhabited the culture originally. Hence many of the pagan traditions we have during Christmas and Easter as well as a number of many far-reaching effects. A prime example of that sort of fusion is Beowulf, so similarly the creation of the Book of Kells could have been said to have been aided by the ancient ways preceding Christianity in the are

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