CHAPTER XIV.

THE COLUMBIAN SCHOOL IN ALBA.

I.--IONA 315 Columba settles in Iona 316 Reilig Odhran 317 Columba's Monasteries 318 Scribes in Iona 319 Rule in Iona 319

II.--COLUMBA PROTECTS THE BARDS 320 Threatened destruction of the Bards 320 Convention of Drumceat 321 Columba's defence of the Bards 322 The Bardic Schools 323

III.--DEATH OF COLUMBA 324

IV.--WRITINGS OF COLUMBA 326 _The Altus Prosator_ 327 _In te Christe_ 328 _Noli Pater_ 328 Irish Poems attributed to Columcille 329 Columba's Prophecies 329

V.--LIVES OF COLUMCILLE 330

VI.--OTHER SCHOLARS OF IONA 331 Baithen 331 Death of Baithen 333 Laisren 333 Seghine 333 Suibhne 334 Cuimine the Fair 334

VII.--ADAMNAN, NINTH ABBOT OF HY 335 Greek Tongue taught in the School of Hy 1170 years ago 336 Adamnan's Birth 336 His Parentage 337 King Finnachta 337 Adamnan goes to Iona 338 _Vita Columbae_ 339 Adamnan introduces the new Paschal observance into Ireland 341 Dispute between Adamnan and Finnachta 342 Canon of Adamnan 342 Death of Adamnan--relics transferred to Ireland 343 Adamnan's writings 344 _De Locis Sanctis_ 344 Expulsion of the Columbian Monks by the Pictish King Nectan 345 The "Gentiles" make their first descent on the Hebrides 346 Martyrdom of St. Blaithmac 347 The _Rule of Columba_ 347