Monachus ipse episcopus Aedan, utpote de insula quae vocatur Hii, destinatus: cuius monasterium in cunctis pene septentrionalium Scottorum, et omnium Pictorum monasteriis non parvo tempore arcem tenebat, regendisque eorum populis praeerat: quae videlicet insula ad ius quidem Brittaniae pertinet, non magno ab ea freto discreta, sed donatione Pictorum, qui illas Brittaniae plagas incolunt, iamdudum monachis Scottorum tradita, eo quod illis praedicantibus fidem Christi perceperint.
Aidan the bishop was himself a monk, seeing that he had been sent from the island which is called Hy: the monastery of which island was no small time the head house of all the monasteries almost of the northern Scots and of all the Redshanks, and had the sovereignty in ruling of all their people. The which isle in very deed belongeth to the right of Britain, being severed from it with a narrowed sea, but by the free gift of the Redshanks, who inhabit those coasts of Britain, had been long ago handed over to the Scottish monks, in consideration that by the preaching of those monks they received the faith of Christ.
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