De huius fide provinciae narravit mihi presbyter et abbas quidam vir veracissimus de monasterio Peartaneu, vocabulo Deda, retulisse sibi quendam seniorem, baptizatum se fuisse die media a Paulino episcopo, praesente rege Aeduino, et multam populi turbam in fluvio Treenta iuxta civitatem quae lingua Anglorum Tiovulfingacaestir vocatur: qui etiam effigiem eiusdem Paulini referre esset solitus, quod esset vir longae staturae, paululum incurvus, nigro capillo, facie macilenta, naso adunco pertenui, venerabilis simul et terribilis aspectu.
As touching the faith of this province a certain priest and abbot, a man of very good credit, whose name was Deda, of the monastery of Peartaneu, told me that one of the elders of that convent (as he reported himself) had been baptized at midday by Paulinus, in the presence of king Edwin, with a mighty throng of people, in the flood Trent, near the city which is called in the English tongue Tiowulfingacaestir; the which also was wont to describe Paulinus person, saying that he was a tall man, somewhat crook-backed and black of hair, lean in face and having a hooked thin nose, of a countenance that did at once appal and strike with reverence.
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