Presbyter quidam nomine Utta, multae gravitatis ac veritatis vir, et ob id omnibus, etiam ipsis principibus saeculi honorabilis, cum mitteretur Cantiam ob adducendam inde coniugem regi Osuio, filiam videlicet Aeduini regis Eanfledam, quae occiso patre illuc fuerat adducta: qui terrestri quidem itinere illo venire, sed navigio cum virgine redire disponebat, accessit ad episcopum Aidanum, obsecrans eum, pro se suisque qui tantum iter erant adgressuri, Domino supplicare.
A certain priest called Utta, a man of great gravity and truth, and for that reason much esteemed of all, even of the princes of this world themselves, at what time he was sent to Kent to fetch thence a wife to King Oswy (to wit Eanfled, daughter of King Edwin, who after the slaying of her father had been taken thither), appointing for his journey to travel thither by land but to return with the maiden by ship, went to bishop Aidan, beseeching him to make his humble prayer to the Lord to prosper him and his who were about to venture on so hazardous a journey.
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