1897-1059 King Arthur’s Din Draithou and Trevelgue, a Cornish Cliff-Fort Breeze Andrew Charles author Universidad Pública de Navarra Correspondence to: Andrew Charles Breeze 24 03 2020 Volume 137, Issue 1 2020 11 26 Copyright © 2020 2020 <p>Traditions of Carannog, a Welsh saint of about the year 550, appear in his <em>vita prima </em>written in the twelfth century and surviving in a copy of the thirteenth (his <em>vita secunda</em>, a mere fragment, is not discussed here). The <em>vita prima </em>is best known for what it says on Arthur. Carannog leaves Wales, encounters King Arthur in south-west Britain, even­tually gains his support, and is given lands near Arthur’s stronghold of Din Draithou. 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