(_d_) Again exalts Clonmacnois by relating a dream in which the founder is put on a level with the great Colum Cille. This vision is related also in the Lives of the latter saint (see, for instance, LL, 852). An analogous vision, not related in the Lives of Ciaran, is that of the three heavenly chairs, seen by Saint Baithin. He saw a chair of gold, a chair of silver, and a chair of crystal before the Lord. As interpreted by Colum Cille, the first was the seat destined for Ciaran, on account of the nobility and firmness of his faith; the silver chair was for Baithin, on account of the firmness and brightness and rigour of his faith; and the third was for Colum Cille himself, on account of the brightness and purity--and brittleness--of his faith.[18] XXIX. THE PARTING OF CIARAN AND FINDIAN (VG) Compare with this narrative the parting of Senan and Notal (LL, 2031). The metre of the stanza is _cummasc etir rannaigecht mor ocus leth-rannaigecht_ (seven-syllable and five-syllable lines alternately, with monosyllabic rhymes _abab_). The translation is literal. XXX. THE ADVENTURES OF THE ROBBERS OF LOCH ERNE (LB, LC) LA and VG know nothing of the visit to Loch Erne of which this is the chief incident. Ninned here appears as an abbot, which is scarcely consistent with his previous appearance as a junior fellow-student of Ciaran. There is, however, a possible hint at this tradition in the statement in VG that when Ciaran departed from Clonard he left the Dun Cow with Ninned. Ninned's island, as we learn from an entry in the _Martyrology of Donegal_ (18th January) was Inis Muighe Samh, now spelt Inismacsaint, in Loch Erne. The reading in both MSS. of LB, _silua_ for _insula_, evidently rests on a false interpretation of a word or a contraction in the exemplar from which R1 was copied. This seems to have been hard to read at the incident before us. Later on there is a word, which the sense shows us must have been _potentes_. The scribe of R1 could not read it, and left a blank, which he afterwards tentatively filled in with the meaningless word _fatentes_--a word which his copyist, the scribe of R2, emended by guesswork into _fac(i)entes_.