The Dreamtime

In the beginning, there was an island and upon that island was Le Mont; an Armorican stronghold founded by an Irish monk in the dreamtime between the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of British and European nation states. This was a time before the French, before the Normans; a time of Britons - or Bretons - who settled the Atlantic facing peninsulas of the mainland from Cornwall, Wales and Ireland. Away from the crowds, memory of the Celtic dreamtime endures at Mont St Michel, as if a fairytale castle at the edge of the sea.