 A third brother of Áed, Colmán Bec, was also an ancestor figure, but of the less important Caílle Follamain.Compared to his father and his sons, relatively little is said of Áed, either in the Irish annals or in other sources such as hagiography or heroic verse.Adomnán recounts Columba's prophecy to Áed in his "Life of St Columba".