The tale of the Scottish king and the hermit who saved his life

There’s a 900-year-old story about a king of Scotland and the lonely hermit who saved his life. Surviving only as scraps of tales and long-forgotten fables, the tale dates from the early days of Catholicism’s adoption by this scattered population — though the hermit in question lived by a very different Christianity. The legend, which seems widespread enough to have some grounding in reality, goes like this. <h2>The year was 1123…</h2> … and King Alexander was afloat in a small fishing boat. His four crewmen were navigating the Firth of Forth, a wide estuary to the north of what we now call Edinburgh, when the weather took a turn for the worse. The waves grew into a frenzy, the wooden hull was overturned and the crew was lost to the deep. <a href="https://theofs.medium.com/the-tale-of-the-scottish-king-and-the-hermit-who-saved-his-life-e14f12fd57d2">Website</a>