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Historical person
Saint Mungo, also known as Kentigern, was an early Christian missionary traditionally associated with the foundation of Glasgow. Medieval hagiography places his ministry in the kingdom of Strathclyde during the sixth century.
The surviving stories were written long after his lifetime and combine history, legend and miracle. Mungo became Glasgow’s patron saint, and symbols from his legends remain part of the city’s coat of arms.
In Nigel Tranter’s Druid Sacrifice, The child she bears is Kentigern, remembered as Saint Mungo, the missionary bishop traditionally linked with the foundation of Glasgow. Signe Pike’s The Shadowed Land brings Mungo into the court of Strathclyde, where his Christian presence sharpens the religious tensions surrounding Rhydderch’s kingship and those who continue to follow the Old Way.
Series
The Lost Queen series reimagines the political and spiritual world of sixth-century northern Britain through Languoreth, queen of Strathclyde, and her twin brother Lailoken, a warrior-seer whose story is woven into the traditions that later shaped Merlin. Across the sequence, the Brittonic kingdoms of the north face dynastic…
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