There are religious works in Gaelic including the "Elegy for St Columba" by Dallan Forgaill, c. 597 and "In Praise of St Columba" by Beccan mac Luigdech of Rum, c. 677. In Latin they include a "Prayer for Protection" (attributed to St Mugint), c. mid-sixth century and "Altus Prosator" ("The High Creator", attributed to St Columba), c. 597. What is arguably the most important medieval work written in Scotland, the "Vita Columbae", by Adomnán, abbot of Iona (627/8–704), was also written in Latin. The next most important piece of Scottish hagiography, the verse "Life of St. Ninian", was written in Latin in Whithorn in the eighth century.