Sources For His Life
His story is narrated in the so-called Long Life of St Gerard, an early 14th century compilation of different sources. Although the much earlier so-called Short Life of St Gerard does not contain the Achtum episode, it has been suggested that this episode was inserted into the original, but not extant, *Life of St Gerard (of which the Short Life was an adaptation) from a different source, arguably from some legend attached to the name and family of Csanád. The 13th-century Gesta Ungarorum refers three times to Ahtum. His life and defeat is not mentioned by other chronicles.
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