5.  One day he made his way to a king, Tuathlus by name, to intercede for the liberation of a certain bond-maid.  When he besought the king fervently for her, and he rejected the prayers of the servant of God as though they were ravings, he thought out a new method of liberating her, and determined that he himself should serve the king in her place.  Now when he was coming to the house in which the girl was grinding, the doors which were shut opened to him.  Entering, he showed himself a second Bishop Paulinus to her.  Without delay the king freed her, and further presented his vesture to the servant of God.  Receiving this, he forthwith distributed it to the poor.

XXIV.  THE STORY OF THE MILL AND THE BAILIFF’S DAUGHTER (abstract only)

6.  It fell out one night that the eminent doctor Finnianus sent him with grain of wheat to the mill.  Now a certain kingling who lived near, learning that one of the disciples of the man of God had come thither, sent him flesh and ale by a servant.  When they had presented the gift of such a man, he answered, “That it may be common,” said he, “to the brethren, cast it all on the surface of the mill.”  When the messenger had done this, it was all turned into wheat.  When he heard this, the king gave him the steading in which he was dwelling, with all his goods, in perpetuity:  but Keranus made it over to his master, for a monastery was afterwards erected there.  But the bread made of that grain tasted to the brethren like flesh and ale, and so it refreshed them.

XXX.  THE ADVENTURE OF THE ROBBERS OF LOCH ERNE

7.  Now when a space of time had passed, the licence and benediction of his master having been obtained, he made his way to Saint Nynnidus who was dwelling in a wood (sic) of Loch Erny.  Now when he had arrived he was received with great joy and unfeigned love.  As he was daily becoming perfect in the discipline of manners and of virtue, on a certain day, as one truly obedient, he went forth to the groves hard by with brethren to cut timber.  For it was a custom in that sacred college, that three monks, with an elder, always went out in prescribed order to transport timber.  As the others were cutting wood, he by himself, as was his wont, was intent on prayer to God.  Meanwhile certain wicked robbers, ferried over in a boat to that island, fell upon the aforesaid brethren and slew them, and bore away their heads.  But Keranus, not hearing the sound of his companions hacking, was surprised, and in wonder he hurried to the place where he had left them labouring.  When he saw what had been done to the brethren he heaved heavy sighs and was deeply grieved; and he followed the murderers by their track, and found them in the harbour, sweating to carry their boat in the harbour to the water, but unable to do so.  For God so fastened their skiff to the land that by no means could