284 COKNISH DEDICATIONS. 



renclipd Paternus as lie was dressing-, and lie ran fortli with 

 alacrity to meet the archbishop, half dressed as he was, with one 

 shoe and stocking on and the other foot and leg- hare. Samson 

 was so gratified that he exempted for ever the church of Vannes 

 from the cnstomary dues to the arehiepiscopal stool. 



The seven bishops of Llydaw met in council on a mountain 

 to establish their unity in the faith and in discipline ; and in this 

 council Paternus was present. 



In his old age Paternus left Armorica for the country of the 

 Franks, where he died on the xviii Kal. May (April 15). 

 Three years ensuing after his death, all Llydaw was afflicted with 

 famine, and delegates were sent into the country of the Franks to 

 bring back the body of the bishop to Vannes. 



Such is the legend, which, though full of anachronisms and 

 errors, contains a substratum of truth. It has been examined by 

 M. de la liorderie : "Saint Patern, sa legende et son histoire, 

 Vannes, Lafolye, 1892." But he has fallen into mistakes, and 

 had not at his disposal the clue to one of the principal 

 difficulties in tlie story. M. de la Borderie rightly judges that 

 the legend, as we have it, points to its having been composed in 

 Brittany, and almost certainly at Vannes. But, as will be seen 

 presently, there is evidence that this hagiographer had a Welsh 

 original as his basis, on which he embroidered. 



We will now take the story in order, and eliminate from it 

 the elements that ilo not belong to the oi-iginal "Life," and 

 explain the confusions into which the redactor fell. 



Padarn was the son of Petran and Gwen, and was born in 

 Armorica. From the Welsh Genealogies we know more about 

 him, Petran, or Pedrwn as they call him, was brother of Amwn 

 Ddu, the father of S. Samson, and of Umbrafel, father of 

 S. Maglorius, and of Dervella who married Caradoc son of Ynyr 

 Gwent, by whom she became mother of S. Malo. Another 

 brother was Gwyndaf Hen, father of Meugant. Pedrwn and 

 the rest were the children of Fmyr Llydaw, driven out of the 

 district of Broweroc, or the land about Vannes, colonised by 

 British settlers. Probably some family revolution occasioned this 

 flight of the sons of Emyr from Armorica. De la Borderie airily 

 says: — " Cette pretendue emigration est une pure fable, inspiree 



