![]() ![]() Trian can swim-a rarity at the time in Ireland-is handy with a boat, and can scale rock walls like a lizard. They are an odd trio, but as they leave the monastery and set sail, both Cormac and Trian turn out to be extraordinarily handy when it comes to the skills one might need to start a new life. ![]() The two men he chooses are young Trian, who was placed at the monastery by his family when was thirteen, and old Cormac, who became a monk after the death of his wife and children from the plague. “A small brotherhood,” Artt declares of the initial three-person endeavor, “but mighty in its faith.” He imagines this haven ultimately becoming the foundation for a new monastery, one devoted to God in all His purity. ![]() A well-traveled, scholarly monk named Artt appears in Cluain Mhic Nóis, a seventh-century Irish monastery, and has a dream that he must take two men with him and head downriver and out into the ocean, where he will find an uninhabited island that will be their home. The opening of Haven (the title’s similarity to “heaven” is hardly accidental) has the feel of a classic adventure story. ![]()
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