Adomnán reports that Áedán was present at the meeting.

According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events he described, the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness.

Gaelic literature in Scotland includes a celebration, attributed to the Irish monk Adomnán, of the Pictish King Bridei's ( 671 – 93 ) victory over the Northumbrians at the Battle of Dun Nechtain ( 685 ).

Although nothing is known of Cuildach and Domangart or their descendants, Adomnán mentions a certain Ioan, son of Conall, son of Domnall, " who belonged to the royal lineage of the Cenél nGabráin ", but this is generally read as meaning that Ioan was a kinsman of the Cenél nGabráin, and his grandfather named Domnall is not thought to be the same person as Áedán's brother Domnall.

The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

Adomnán, the 7th century abbot of Iona, records Colonsay as Colosus and Tiree as Ethica, both of which may be pre-Celtic names.

* Adomnán – or Saint Eunan, Abbot of Iona 679 – 704.

Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona who died in 704, mentions similar free standing ringed wooden crosses, later replaced by stone versions.

* Adomnán of Iona, Life of Saint Columba, tr.

There he met Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, who showed him an island in Loch Leven ( later called St Serf's Inch ).

Aldfrith was a close friend of Adomnán, Abbot of Iona from 679, and may have studied with him.

Adomnán of Iona, writing less than 150 years after Diarmait's death, describes him as " ordained by God's will as king of all Ireland.

* Adomnán of Iona, Life of St Columba, tr.

The earliest report of a monster associated with the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written in the 7th century.

Áedán's campaigns on the Isle of Man have sometimes been confused with the battle against the Miathi mentioned by Adomnán.

In the 680s Aldfrith twice met with Adomnán, who came to seek the release of the Irish captives taken in Berht's expedition of 684.

These were released and Adomnán presented Aldfrith with a copy of his treatise De Locis Sanctis (" On the Holy Places "), a description of the places of pilgrimage in the Holy Land, and at Alexandria and Constantinople.

Adomnán categorizes the Vita Columbae into three different books: Columba ’ s Prophecies, Columba ’ s Miracles, and Columba ’ s Apparitions.

Adomnán tells of Columba ’ s prophetic revelations in the first book.

According to Adomnán, Columba came across a group of Picts burying a man who had been killed by the monster.

In book three, Adomnán describes different apparitions of the Saint, both that Columba receives and those that are seen by others regarding him.

Whereas Adomnán just tells us that Columba visited Bridei, Bede relates a later, perhaps Pictish tradition, whereby the saint actually converts the Pictish king.

While very little in the way of Pictish writing has survived, Pictish history since the late 6th century is known from a variety of sources, including Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, saints ' lives such as that of Columba by Adomnán, and various Irish annals.

Adomnán in his Life of Saint Columba offers a longer account, which Abbot Ségéne had heard from Oswald himself.

* Adomnán, Life of Saint Columba translated and edited Richard Sharpe.

* Adomnán, Life of St Columba, tr.

* Clancy, Thomas Owen, " Columba, Adomnán and the Cult of Saints in Scotland " in Broun & Clancy ( 1999 ).

* Adomnán, Life of St Columba, tr.

He was a contemporary of Saint Columba, and much that is recorded of his life and career comes from hagiography such as Adomnán of Iona's Life of Saint Columba.

His succession as king may have been contested ; Adomnán states that Columba had favoured the candidacy of Áedán's brother Eoganán.

Adomnán claims that Áedán was ordained as king by Columba, the first example of an ordination known in Britain and Ireland.

However, Adomnán the chronicler of the life of Columba, notes that Brendan the Navigator set sail from Ireland to visit Columba and unexpectedly found him en route at Hinba.

They carry the names of the saints of Tir Conail-Dallan, Conal and Fiacre, Adomnán, Baithen and Barron, Nelis and Mura, Fionán and Davog, Cartha and Caitríona, Taobhóg, Cróna and Ríanach, Ernan and Asica and Columba.

Like tales are told of Muirchertach mac Ercae and Adomnán records that Columba prophesied a similar death, by wounding, falling and drowning, for Áed Dub.

In the 7th century Adomnán mentions " Rechru " and " Rechrea insula " and these may also have been early names for Rathlin.

Adomnán gives an account of Columba's prophecy that Eochaid's older brothers would predecease their father.

" He notes that Adomnán calls Diarmait filius Cerbulis, son of Cerball, and not son of Fergus as the genealogies would have it.

It may also be the ' Muirbole Paradisi ' mentioned by Adomnán.

It may also be the ' Muirbole Paradisi ' mentioned by Adomnán.

Adomnán describes Oswald as " ordained by God as Emperor of all Britain ".

The death of his son Domangart in the land of the Saxons is mentioned by Adomnán, and it is presumed that Bran died in the same otherwise unrecorded battle.

Adomnán tells that after leaving the royal court, by implication soon afterwards, Columba came to the River Ness, and that the court was atop a steep rock.