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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adomnán reports that Rhydderch sent a monk named Luigbe to Iona to speak with Columba " for he wanted to learn whether he would be slaughtered by his enemies or not ".

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

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.

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.

Likewise, the Cáin Adomnáin ( Law of Adomnán, Lex Innocentium ) counts Nechtan's brother Bridei among its guarantors.

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

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

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

Adomnán, the Senchus fer n-Alban and the Irish annals record Áedán as a son of Gabrán mac Domangairt ( died c. 555 – 560 ).

Áedán's brother Eoganán is known from Adomnán and his death is recorded c. 597.

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.

Adomnán's Life tells how Saint Columba forecast the same death for Áed Dub.

A fourteenth-century legend tells how God ( or St Columba ) told Machar to establish a church where a river bends into the shape of a bishop's crosier before flowing into the sea.

Yet another tale tells of the other Irish saints envying him to such a degree that every one of them ( apart from St Columba ) prayed for his early death ; and finally, he is supposed to have told his followers that upon his death, they were to leave his bones upon the hillside, and to preserve his spirit rather than his relics.

Adomnán's account of Bridei is problematic in that it fails to tells us whether Bridei was already a Christian, and if not, whether Columba converted him.

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