The Amra Choluim Chilli of Dallan Forgaill (from Lebor na hUidre)

...dead according to your conscience. It was for the canons original: "cenonaib"; likely referring to the clergy or monastic rules that Dallán set out to compose his poem. Columba Saint Colum Cille indeed promised Dallán the fruits of the earth in exchange for this praise, but Dallán did not accept them. Instead, he requested heaven for himself and for anyone else who would recite the poem every day, provided they understood both its meaning and its sound, as a certain person said:

Furthermore, Columba gave him three signs for when he should compose it: first, that a rider on a dappled horse would announce Columba's death to him; second, that the first word the rider spoke would be the beginning of the praise; and third, that his sight would be restored to him while he was composing it. This praise was composed at Ath Fene in Meath, as Mael Suthain said. However, Ferdomnach, the successor of Columba, relates that it was sung along the Arrail Road, from Dun nan Airbed to the cross at Mullingar original: "Tigh Lommain". The poetic meter is Anamain between two "nins" the letter 'N': that is, a "nin" at the start of the praise and a "nin" at its end—specifically, "Ni dir ceoil" and "Nimuain." Or perhaps it is a branch of recne de-chubaid a specific Irish meter, where two or three verses begin with the same letter in succession, followed by a verse with a different letter.

God, God, etc. The reason the first word is doubled is for emphasis, or because of the eagerness of the praise, as it is written: "God, my God, etc." original Latin: "Deus, Deus meus". In the Gaelic language, this name for the technique is "the repetition of the usual voice." There are three types of similar speech used by the Gaelic poets: "repetition of the usual voice," "excessive mode," and "the double-word," and it is necessary to recognize each of them. "Repetition" is indeed the doubling of a single word in one place within the verse without continuing it further. "Excessive mode," however, is the repetition of the same word...