Baring-Gould’s sources: Wilson in his Anglican Martyrology. The Bollandists. Authority The Legend in Capgrave.] S. Keneth was a hermit who lived in Gower. A wild legend of his childhood is told by Capgrave, of no historical value. He was the son of a Welsh prince, born in sin, and cast out when bom in an osier coracle on the waves to be drifted away where God willed. The seagulls fluttered round him, raised the babe with their claws and beaks, and bore him to a ledge of rock, where they made a bed for him of the feathers from their breasts. Nine days after, an angel brought a brazen bell for him to suck out ofj and every day a forest doe came to the edge of the cliff, and spurted milk into the bell.

A shepherd found the infant, and bore him to his home; but a flight of seagulls followed, and, swooping down on the crib in which the shepherd had laid the child, flew away with the little Keneth, and bore him back to the ledge of rock over the thundering Atlantic. Thus grew up Keneth. But he was always deformed, having one leg bent up so that the calf adhered to his thigh. He lived till his death, revered by all, on the storm-beaten rocks of the Peninsula of Gower, the associate of seagulls and forest deer.