KENTIGERN, ST., or MUNGO ("dear friend," a name given to him, according to Jocelyn, by St. Servanus), a Briton of Strathclyde, called by the Goidels In Glaschu, "the Grey Hound," is said to have been of royal descent. His mother when with child was thrown down from a hill called Dunpelder (Traprain Law, Haddingtonshire), but survived the fall and escaped by sea to Culross on the farther side of the Firth of Forth, where Kenti gern was born. Kentigern lived for some time at Glasgow, near a cemetery ascribed to St. Ninian, and was eventually made bishop of that region by the king and clergy. Subsequently he was op posed by a pagan king called Morken, whose relatives after his death succeeded in forcing the saint to retire from Strathclyde. He thereupon took refuge with St. David at Menevia (St. David's), and eventually founded a monastery at Llanelwy (St. Asaph's), for which he received grants from Maelgwn, prince of Gwynedd. After the battle of Ardderyd in 573 in which King Rhydderch, leader of the Christian party in Strathclyde, was vic torious, Kentigern was recalled. He fixed his see first at Hoddam
in Dumfriesshire, but afterwards returned to Glasgow. He is credited with missionary work in Galloway and north of the Firth of Forth. The meeting of Kentigern and Columba probably took place soon after 584, when the latter began to preach in the neigh bourhood of the Tay.