[1] Fragan's lineage is disputed; some sources claim he was the nephew of King Cadwy of Dumnonia and the son of Prince Selyf of Cornwall.
Some sources cite a plague believed to have broken out in Devon in 507 caused Fragan to bring his family and a large number of his subjects onto ships on the English Channel.
Winwaloe is exceptionally famous throughout Breton, French, Welsh, Cornish, and English history and extending to the modern day for his piety and the fame of his abbey.
More modern historians, particularly Sabine Baring-Gould, have concluded that the original story was likely that a Goose flew toward the very young Klervi and would have likely pecked her eye out without Winwaloe intervening.
"[8][9] There is a statue of Klervi, Winwalo and the goose on the fountain of St. Genoa in Saint-Frégant in Finistère, and on the doors of the nearby church.