Saint Mungo - Biographers

Biographers

The 'Life of Saint Mungo' was written by the monastic hagiographer, Jocelin of Furness, in about 1185. Jocelin states that he rewrote the 'life' from an earlier Glasgow legend and an old Gaelic document. There are certainly two other medieval lives: the earlier partial life in the Cottonian MSS now in the British Library, and the later 'life', based on Jocelin, by John of Tynemouth.

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