The expression, ‘whatever kind of person he was himself,’—verum qualiscumque fuerit ipse,—has been held to imply that Bede had no great opinion of St. Columba’s sanctity, or, at all events, referred to traits in his character which were unfavourable, and Dr. Reeves suggests that he may refer to current stories of the saint’s imperious and vindictive temper; but the expression appears to the author to refer to the immediately preceding sentence—‘de cujus vita et verbis nonnulla a discipulis ejus feruntur scripta haberi’—which surely refers to the Lives by Cummene and Adamnan. As Bede was acquainted with Adamnan’s work on the Holy Places, he could hardly have been ignorant of his Life of St. Columba; and probably all Bede meant to express was that he had some hesitation in accepting as true all that Adamnan said of him. Footnote 295: Adamnan, B. i. c. 2. It is unnecessary to follow Finten’s proceedings further. He is the Finten, surnamed Munnu, who founded Tach Munnu, now Taghmon, in Ireland, and to whom the churches of St. Mund in Lochleven and Kilmund in Cowal were dedicated. Footnote 296: 598 Quies Baethin abbatis Ea anno lxvi etatis sue.—_Tigh._ Tighernac antedates the deaths of Columba and Baithene one year. The Martyrology of Donegal records two anecdotes of him. ‘When he used to eat food, he was wont to say _Deus in adjutorium meum intende_ between every two morsels. When he used to be gathering corn along with the monks, he held one hand up beseeching God, and another hand gathering corn.’—_Mart. Don._ p. 165. Footnote 297: Bede, _Η. E._, B. ii. c. 4. Footnote 298: 605 Obitus Laisreni abbatis Iae.—_Tigh._ Footnote 299: Adamnan, B. iii. c. 20. Footnote 300: 611 Neman Abbas Lesmoir.—_Tigh._ 617 Combustio Donnain Ega hi xv kalendas Mai cum clericis martiribus.—_Tigh._ _Chron. Picts and Scots_, pp. 68, 69. Footnote 301: Dr. Reeves’s _Adamnan_, 1874, p. 294. Footnote 302: _Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 168. Bishop Forbes’s _Calendars_, p. 449. Footnote 303: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 1. Footnote 304: 623 Bass Fergna abbas Iae.—_Tigh._ Footnote 305: Bede, _Η. E._, B. ii. c. 14. Footnote 306: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. ii. c. 17. Footnote 307: _Ib._, B. iii. c. 3. Footnote 308: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 5. Footnote 309: ‘Hanc mihi Adamnano narrationem meus decessor, noster abbas Failbeus, indubitanter enarravit, qui se ab ore ipsius Ossualdi regis Segineo abbati eamdem enuntiantis visionem audisse protestatus est.’—_Adamnan_, B. i. c. 1. Footnote 310: 632 _Inis Metgoit_ fundata est.—_Tigh._ Tighernac antedates at this period transactions in Northumbria by about three years. Footnote 311: Bede in _Vit. S. Cudbercti_, c. xvi. Footnote 312: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 3. Footnote 313: