Ælfgar (Algar), according to 16th-centuryantiquarianJohn Leland, was asaint venerated at achapel in theforest of Selwood, three miles fromMells (nearFrome),Somerset.[1] Leland wrote that at the chapel "be buryed the bones of S. Algar, of late tymes superstitiously soute of by the folische commune people".[1] There is no other surviving information on the saint, and it is presumed he was anAnglo-Saxonhermit.[1]