Est autem Elge in provincia Orientalium Anglorum regio familiarum circiter sexcentarum, in similitudinem insulae, vel paludibus, ut diximus, circumdata, vel aquis: unde et a copia anguillarum quae in iisdem paludibus capiuntur, nomen accepit; ubi monasterium habere desideravit memorata Christi famula, quoniam de provincia eorumdem Orientalium Anglorum ipsa, ut praefati sumus, carnis originem duxerat.
Now the country of Ely is in the province of the East English, and containeth about 600 hides of land, and is compassed, as we said, like an island round about with either fens or water: wherefore too it hath had its name from the great store of eels which are plentifully taken in the same fens; in which isle the said handmaid of Christ desired to have a monastery, because, as we said before, she herself after the flesh was born of the province of the same East English.
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