Et cum sedecim annis esset sepulta, placuit eidem abbatissae levari ossa eius, et in locello novo posita in ecclesiam transferri; iussitque quosdam e fratribus quaerere lapidem, de quo locellum in hoc facere possent: qui ascensa navi, ipsa enim regio Elge undique est aquis ac paludibus circumdata, neque lapides maiores habet, vencrunt ad civitatulam quandam desolatam, non procul inde sitam, quae lingua Anglorum Grantacaestir vocatur: et mox invenerunt iuxta muros civitatis locellum de marmore albo pulcherrime factum, operculo quoque similis lapidis aptissime tectum.
And when Ethelthryth had lain buried sixteen years, it seemed good to the same abbess to have her bones taken up and put in a new coffin and be carried over into the church; and she bade certain of the brethren to seek a stone whereof they might make a coffin for this purpose; and they taking ship (for this same country of Elge is roundabout compassed with waters and fens nor hath stones of larger size), came to a certain little city left uninhabited, the which was not far from thence and in the English tongue is called Grantacaestir: and by and by they found by the walls of the town a coffin of white marble, very fairly made, and covered also very trim with a lid of like stone.
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