Nam eo tempore necdum multis in regione Anglorum monasteriis construetis, multi de Brittania monachicae conversationis gratia, Francorum vel Galliarum monasteria adire solebant; sed et filias suas eisdem erudiendas, ac sponso caelesti copulandas mittebant; maxime in Brige et in Cale, et in Andilegum monasterio: inter quas erat Saethryd, filia uxoris Annae regis Orientalium Anglorum, cuius supra meminimus, et filia naturalis eiusdem regis Aedilberg: quae utraque cum esset peregrina, prae merito virtutum, eiusdem monasterii Brigensis est abbatissa constituta.
For in those days, when many monasteries were not yet builded in the country of the English, many were wont for the sake of religious life to go to the religious houses of the Franks or Gaul; moreover, they sent their daughters to the same to be brought up and married to the heavenly bridegroom; chiefly in the monastery of Brige and of Cale and of Andilegum, among whom Saethryd, daughter to the wife of Anna, King of the East English (of which king we have made mention before), and Ethelberga the said kings natural daughter: who, though strangers, were both made abbesses of the same monastery of Brige by reason of their worthy virtues.
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