292 WHO WAS ST. ENOCH? 



was set up, and, forasmuch as a substantial object of 

 general utility appealed more directly to the citizens 

 than the shadowy memory of a saint, the street came 

 to be known as the Trongate, which name it still bears. 



All this local lore does not lead much nearer to the 

 personality of St. Thenew. Brief, for the most part, 

 and where they are extended very conflicting, are the 

 notices of this royal lady; for such, according to all 

 accounts, was the rank and sex of the individual de- 

 scribed as Thenew, Tenaw, Thanes, Thaney, or Thennat, 

 according to the way the writer chose to represent the 

 sound of a name which the owner thereof certainly 

 never dreamt of committing to paper or parchment. 

 The chief authority for the strange life she led are 

 Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, who died in 1164, and 

 Joceline, a Cistercian monk of Furness, who addressed 

 his compilation to Herbert's successor in the see of 

 Glasgow— another Joceline, who died in 1199. But 

 whereas Thenew died in 514, neither of these can be 

 held original authorities; indeed, they would never 

 have troubled their heads about Thenew had not each 

 of them undertaken a biography of her more famous 

 son Kentigern. 



It is the despair of antiquaries that the material 

 from which these biographies were compiled has not 

 been preserved, namely, narratives in the Celtic language 

 composed shortly after St. Kentigern's demise. It is 

 indeed exasperating to be told both by Bishop Herbert 

 and Brother Joceline that they had so dealt with these 

 ancient manuscripts as to make them agreeable to the 

 literary taste and conformable to the current orthodoxy 



