FORESPEECH

So it was that Columba original: Columb Cille stayed the expulsion of the poets after that, and he said to King Aed:

Cormac was victorious in battle;
His praises are new, though his jewels have withered.
This is what I have read in wheel-poetry A complex form of Irish verse where the last word of a poem or stanza echoes the first.:
It is a blessing to be praised, but a woe to be satirized,

O Aed!

Fair is the nectar sucked from its noble lawns;
Woe to the desolate land that is satirized!
A renowned ladder: fair is the course the living drive;
The treasures of those who praise remain.

The maintenance of the poets was reorganized across Eriu Ireland after that, and the size of their retinues was reduced—specifically, only twenty-four people were allowed in the company of the Ollom The highest rank of poet or scholar, and twelve in the company of the Anrad The second-highest rank of poet.

Afterward, Columba made a demand to King Aed for the release of Scandlan, but the king would not grant it. Consequently, Columba told Aed that it would be Scandlan himself who would help the saint put on his shoes at midnight, no matter where he might be; and so it was fulfilled. Now, it was Colman, son of Comgellan, who delivered the judgment between the men of Eriu Ireland and Alba Scotland. He was of the Dal Riata A Gaelic kingdom spanning northeastern Ireland and western Scotland. It was with him that Columba shared an embrace when Colman was just a small infant, as he said:

O tree of hounds: O pure soul!
Here is a kiss for you; now give a kiss to me.

And Columba said that it was Colman who would bring peace between the men of Ireland and Scotland. The judgment he gave was: "Their military expeditions and their hosting shall always be with the men of Ireland," for military service is always tied to the territory; "but their tribute and their taxes shall be with the men of Scotland;" or, "their naval forces only shall be with the men of Scotland, but everything else shall be with the men of Ireland."

Then Dallan, who was the chief Ollom of Ireland at that time, came to speak with Columba, and it was then that he recited the "Forespeech" The preface to the Amra Choluim Chille, a famous eulogy for the saint for him. However, Columba did not allow him to compose any more of it at that time, insisting that he should only finish it...