 The sequence in which the "Ystorya Adaf" appears in Peniarth MS 5, where it is followed by the Passion story from the Gospel of Matthew and a Welsh translation of the "Inventio Sancte Crucis", suggests that the scribe took the "Ystoria" to be a prelude to the Crucifixion legend and the "Inventio" its follow-up story, with the Gospel account providing a link between them.Though the story is slightly elaborated after the typical manner of Middle Welsh narrative prose, by and large it adheres closely to the Latin text as reconstructed by Meyer.Such few connections as there are between the motifs of the story and native Welsh tradition seem coincidental.