Erat enim rex eiusdem gentis Sigberct, qui post Sigberctum cognomento Parvum regnavit, amicus eiusdem Osuiu regis, qui cum frequenter ad eum in provinciam Nordanhymbrorum veniret, solebat eum hortari ad intelligendum deos esse non posse qui hominum manibus facti essent; dei creandi materiam lignum vel lapidem esse non posse, quorum recisurae vel igni absumerentur, vel in vasa quaelibet humani usus formarentur, vel certe despectui habita foras proiicerentur, et pedibus conculcata in terram verterentur.
For the king of the said nation was Sigbert (who reigned after the Sigbert surnamed the Little), a friend of the same king Oswy who, when Sigbert oftentimes came to the country of the Northumbrians to visit him, used eftsoons to persuade with him to understand that such could not be gods which had been made with mens hands; that wood or stone could not be matter to make a god, the pieces whereof were either wasted with fire, or served to make any kind of vessels for the use of man, or anyway being regarded as naught worth were cast forth abroad and trodden underfoot and turned into earth.
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