She washes up in Fife, where she is taken in by the community of Saint Serf at Culross. Miraculously she is found to have survived, and is exiled, cast adrift in a coracle upon the River Forth. She is hurled down the cliffs at Traprain Law, the hill fort in East Lothian where they lived. When she discovers that she is pregnant, her father punishes her, the victim of this crime, and sentences her to death. There are different stories of her life, but a recurrent tale is that of her rape by Welsh prince Owain. It was home to King Loth, and his daughter, Teneu. There are very few ancient hill forts in Scotland where we know who lived on them, but Traprain Law in Lothian is one of them. Loth also appears in Arthurian legends as the father of Sir Gawain. In the 6th century, when Scotland was a collection of disparate fiefdoms, she was daughter of King Lleuddun or Loth, who may have given his name to the Lothians where he lived. To know Saint Mungo's story, you need to go back to his mother, Teneu. The discrete halo behind his head tells us of his saintly nature. This tells us how we want to imagine the legendary founding father of the city, with Mungo seen as an ordinary man, a bit bedraggled, maybe even a homeless man, benignly smiling down on the robin from one of his stories. More recently we have a contemporary imagining of Saint Mungo, in a mural painted on the side of a tenement on High Street in Glasgow, facing up towards the cathedral where his tomb lies. The mixture of fable and truth in these tellings is therefore hard to unpick, but still informs us of how people in that time wanted to picture their saint. His death in the early years of the 7th century is recorded in contemporary records (the Welsh Annals) but what is known about his life comes from two 12th century biographies. In medieval times Kentigern was venerated as the local saint, with pilgrimages regularly undertaken to his tomb, which still lies in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral. I think you would agree that this is a more affectionate name than Kentigern, which means "high lord". "Mungo" derives from the Gaelic Mo Choƫ, taken to mean "My Dear". Also known as Kentigern, Mungo was the nickname he was given as a child when under the tutelage of Saint Serf, in Fife.
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