Intí do leig de ar son De gan cheim budh airde ina abdaine manach n-dub do beith aige ´san egluis 7 cliara Erend 7 Alban 7 iarthair domain ag a togha mar uachtaran orra fein.
Albeit the clergy of Erin and Alba and the Western World chose him to be ruler over them, yet he for God´s sake put from him any station in the church higher than an abbacy of black monks.
(c) Manus O´Donnell
Betha Colaim Chille/LIfe of Columcille
ed./transl. A. O´Kelleher, G. Schoeperle
pp.2-3
1918