Cum ergo multis ibidem annis Deo solitarius serviret (tanta autem erat altitudo aggeris quo mansio eius erat vallata, ut caelum tantum ex ea, cuius introitum sitiebat, aspicere posset), contigit ut congregata synodo non parva sub praesentia regis Ecgfridi iuxta fluvium Alne, in loco qui dicitur Adtuifyrdi, quod significat, ad duplex vadum, cui beatae memoriae Theodorus archiepiscopus praesidebat, uno animo omniumque consensu ad episcopatum ecclesiae Lindisfarnensis eligeretur.
When, therefore, he there served God solitarily many years (now the bank wherewith his abode was fenced about was so high that he could see nothing else out of it but the heaven which he thirsted to enter into), it happened that there was a great synod assembled in the presence of king Egfrid by the river Alne, at a place called Adtuifyrdi (which signifies as much as at the double ford), in which archbishop Theodore of blessed memory was president, and there with one mind and consent of them all Cuthbert was chosen to be bishop of the church of Lindisfarne.
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