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P. 92. v. 264. The history of St. Kentigern is related with some variations by Joceline. His mother was named Thanes or Taneu. Joceline terms her the daughter of a Cambrian prince; but the name of her father, according to Fordun, was Loth or Lodun, the Leodegan of romance, from whom Lothian is supposed to have derived its name. According to Joceline, she conceived without knowing who was the father of her child: But by an anonymous monkish writer, quoted by Pinkerton on a note to his edition of Joceline's Life of St. Kentigern, he is called Ewen the son of Erwegende, a British prince, whom the minstrels denominated Ewen the son of Ulien. Ulien seems to be the celebrated warrior Urien