296 WHO WAS ST. ENOCH? 



a phenomenon which had puzzled him very sorely at 

 the time.' 



Bishop Herbert's narrative ends abruptly at this 

 point; but from Joceline we learn that Servanus 

 baptised the young mother by the name of Taneu, and 

 her boy by that of Kyentyern or Kentigern, meaning 

 ' over-lord.' But this was only a full-dress name. So 

 fond did Servanus grow of the lad that he always 

 called him ' Munghu' — that is 'my darling ' ; and Mungo 

 is the endearing appellative by which the saint is 

 commemorated in many Scottish dedications, including 

 that of the great cathedral at Glasgow. It has passed 

 into an inelegant form in Strathbungo, suggesting the 

 prevalence of nasal catarrh in Glasgow suburbs. 



Mungo seems to have been a precocious child, 

 among other noteworthy deeds restoring to life his 

 patron's pet robin which his schoolfellows had pelted 

 to death. Of even greater service to Servanus was the 

 miracle whereby his pupil raised from the dead a par- 

 ticularly good cook who had expired in the establish- 

 ment. But about the poor little mother not another 

 word from Brother Joceline ; only in the Breviary of 

 Aberdeen, a singularly Munchausenish compilation, it is 

 stated that she went to live with her son when he was 

 settled in Glasgow, where she received honourable 

 burial. 



It is dull work to wade through these impudent 

 monkish fabrications ; it would not repay the trouble 

 but for the glimpses one obtains here and there of our 

 people slowly emerging from primitive barbarism. And 

 one lays down the book, marvelling that Christianity 



