Siquidem Adamnan presbyter et abbas monachorum qui erant in insula Hii, cum legationis gratia missus a sua gente, venisset ad Aldfridum regem Anglorum, et aliquandiu in ea provincia moratus, videret ritus ecclesiae canonicos; sed et a pluribus qui erant eruditiores esset sollerter admonitus, ne contra universalem ecclesiae morem, vel in observantia paschali, vel in aliis quibusque decretis cum suis paucissimis, et in extremo mundi angulo positis vivere praesumeret, mutatus mente est; ita ut ea quae viderat et audierat in ecclesiis Anglorum, suae suorumque consuetudini libentissime praeferret.
For whenas Adamnan priest and abbot of the monks who were in the isle Hy, being sent upon an embassy from his own nation to Aldfrid king of the English, and tarrying a certain time in that country, saw the canonical rites of the Church; and besides was earnestly admonished by many who were more learned, that he should not presume to live contrary to the universal custom of the Church, nor in keeping Easter, nor in other decrees, whatsoever they were, with his countrymen who were very few in number and dwelt in the furthermost corner of the world, he changed his mind; so much so that what he had seen and heard in the churches of England he most gladly preferred before the custom which he and his countrymen had followed.
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