Editing Kistvaen (section)

==Kistvaens and Celtic saints==
Kistvaens are also found associated with holy sites or burial places of early [[Celtic Christianity|Celtic saints]], who are often [[hagiography|semi-legendary]]. Saints associated with kistvaens include [[Callwen]] daughter of [[Brychan]], [[Gerent, Saint|Geraint]],<ref>S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher, ''The Lives of the British Saints'' (London, 1908) p. 67 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-G4AAAAAMAAJ&dq=Callwen+cistvaen+intitle%3Alives+intitle%3Aof+intitle%3Athe+intitle%3ABritish+intitle%3ASaints&pg=PA67 online] and  vol. 3, p. 51 [https://books.google.com/books?id=xDdaqXsOJbcC&dq=kistvaen&pg=PA51 online]</ref> [[Begnet]],<ref>In the quoted passage incorrectly identified as St. Benedict; Joseph P. O'Reilly, "Notes on the Orientations and Certain Architectural Details of the Old Churches of [[Dalkey]] Town and [[Dalkey Island]]," ''Proceedings of the [[Royal Irish Academy]]'' 24 (1903), p. 196 [https://books.google.com/books?id=quoAAAAAYAAJ&dq=Begnet+kistvaens&pg=RA3-PA196 online.]</ref> and [[Pennant Melangell|Melangell]].<ref>Nancy Edwards, "Celtic Saints and Early Medieval Archaeology," in ''Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West'' (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 234ff., with [https://books.google.com/books?id=8awpnzSjLC8C&dq=%22stone+slab+shrine%2C+Killabuonia%22&pg=PA241 photo.] Scholars may describe the kind of structure called a "kistvaen" rather than using the term itself.</ref> Foundation remains of stone slab- or gable-shrines, or the ''[[cella memoriae]]'' of Mediterranean origin, may sometimes have been misunderstood in an earlier era of scholarship as a kistvaen, and the subject is complicated by this "woolly nomenclature."<ref>''Ulster Journal of Archaeology'' 63 (2004), p. 144.</ref>