A collection of genealogies of Welsh and Brittonic saints, which with the exception of later accretions, has been dated to the 12th or 13th century.
Late vernacular Welsh Life of St Collen, which is attested in manuscripts from the 16th century onwards.
Middle Welsh Life of St David, which gives an abridged version of the Latin Life by Rhygyfarch ap Sulien.
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Second known vita of Gildas, written in the 12th century by the Welsh cleric Caradog of Llancarfan. It is a work of hagiogaphical and historical fiction intended to associate the abbey of Glastonbury with the saint. The text is known for weaving Arthurian legend into its narrative world and offers an early account of the abduction of Gwenhwyfar by Melwas.
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Latin legend of Clydog of Merthyr Clydog (modern-day Clodock in Herefordshire). BHL 1864.
Life of St Cyngar (Lat. Cungarus) of Congresbury, a good part of which is preserved in a fragment held at Wells Cathedral. In the text, Cungarus is presented as the son of the emperor of Constantinople, who did not wish to follow in his father’s footsteps. He fled, ultimately reaching Britain, where he founded a small chapel at Congresbury, Somerset (suo vocabulo Cungrisberia nominatum), and to judge by the capitula, another place of worship in Wales. BHL Suppl. 2013. A fuller version of the text was printed in the Nova legenda Angliae.
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Latin prose Life of St David, written by Rhygyfarch ap Sulien, who may have been bishop of St David’s.
Second version of the life of St Cybi to occur in Cotton Vespasian A xiv.
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