Editing Saint Mungo (section)

==Analysis==
Mungo's ancestry is recorded in the ''[[Bonedd y Saint]]''. His father, Owain was a King of [[Rheged]]. His maternal grandfather, Lleuddun, was probably a King of the [[Gododdin]]; [[Lothian]] was named after him. There seems little reason to doubt that Mungo was one of the first evangelists of Strathclyde, under the patronage of King Rhiderch Hael, and probably became the first [[Bishop of Glasgow]].

Jocelin seems to have altered parts of the original life that he did not understand; while adding others, like the trip to Rome, that served his own purposes, largely the promotion of the [[Diocese of Glasgow|Bishopric of Glasgow]]. Some new parts may have been collected from genuine local stories, particularly those of Mungo's work in [[Cumbria]]. S. Mundahl-Harris has shown that Mungo's associations with [[St Asaph]] were a [[Normans|Norman]] invention.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} However, in Scotland, excavations at Hoddom have brought confirmation of early Christian activity there, uncovering a late 6th-century stone baptistery.

Details of Mungo's infirmity have a ring of authenticity about them. The year of Mungo's death is sometimes given as 603, but is recorded in the [[Annales Cambriae]] as 612. 13 January was a Sunday in both 603 and 614. David McRoberts has argued that his death in the bath is a garbled version of his collapse during a baptismal service.

In a late 15th-century fragmentary manuscript generally called '[[Lailoken]] and Kentigern', Mungo appears in conflict with the mad prophet, Lailoken alias [[Merlin (wizard)|Merlin]]. Lailoken's appearance at the [[Battle of Arfderydd]] in 573 has led to a connection being made between this battle, the rise of Riderch Hael and the return of Mungo to Strathclyde.

The ''Life of Saint Mungo'' bears similarities with [[Chrétien de Troyes]]'s French romance ''[[Yvain, the Knight of the Lion]]''. In Chrétien's story, [[Ywain|Yvain]], a version of Owain mab Urien, courts and marries [[Laudine]], only to leave her for a period to go adventuring. This suggests that the works share a common source.<ref>Duggan, Joseph J. (1987). In Chrétien de Troyes; Burton Raffel, ''Yvain, the Knight of the Lion'', pp. 214–216. Yale University Press.</ref>