The Bard Gildas was far from having the same hatred as Gwenc'hlan for Christians. He was, on the contrary, a well-meaning poet; he passes for one of the last Bards with his colleagues Sulio and Hyvarion. These last two became monks; as for Gildas, who converts to Christianity, he “forgets under the robe that, in his youth, he had belonged to the body of the Bards and he declaims against them. »
The Bard Gildas
So the Church made him a Saint, as well as Sulio, of course. Hyvarion left the island of Brittany to go to the mainland and practice his art there.
The alchemist Albert the Great tells us:
“As he was a perfect musician and composed ballets and songs, King Childebert, who loved music, appointed him to his household and gave him wages. »
He married in Armorica; there is even about this marriage the legend Here is a curious thing: one night he dreamed that he had married a young local virgin, beautiful and wise. An angle had appeared to him and said to him:
“Tomorrow, on your way, you will meet the woman you are to marry; it will be near a fountain. »
Indeed, the next day he met the young girl near the fountain; he married her had a blind child by her, he was named Hervé. From the age of five, he began to sing hymns that his mother composed for him; later he sang those he composed himself.
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