European Christianity in many ways was integrated with the local mythologies and mysticisms of the peoples who took it up. For example, the magic in infinite k

European Christianity in many ways was integrated with the local mythologies and mysticisms of the peoples who took it up. For example, the magic in infinite knotwork became Christian prayer in the new framework. It's not so far-fetched to see the illumination of the Book of Kells as being in direct continuity with the pagan heritage, and the message of the film seemed to me to be the exposition of that relationship, and of how that relationship was used in evangelization. The Vikings themselves were eventually pacified by the same evangelization, and social integration into the new Europe.