Utta

Also known as: the priest Utta · Family: English · Role: priest · First appears: Book III · Chap. XV

Life events

c. 644 · Utta was sent to Kent to bring Eanfled for her intended marriage to Oswy.(Book III · Chap. XV · 📍 Kent)
- With: Eanfled Oswy
- “was sent to Kent, to bring thence, as wife for King Oswy, Eanfled, the daughter of King Edwin”
c. 644 · A storm endangered Utta’s ship, then ceased after Aidan’s holy oil was cast into the sea.(Book III · Chap. XV)
- With: Aidan
- “The priest at last, remembering the bishop’s words, laid hold of the phial and cast some of the oil into the sea, which at once, as had been foretold, ceased from its uproar.”

with Eanfled (interaction) “Intending to go thither by land, but to return with the maiden by sea”
with Aidan (interaction) “he went to Bishop Aidan, and entreated him to offer up his prayers to the Lord for him and his company”
with Aidan (interaction) “He, blessing them, and commending them to the Lord, at the same time gave them some holy oil”
with Cynimund (interaction) “The story of this miracle was not told me by a person of little credit, but by Cynimund, a most faithful priest of our church, who declared that it was related to him by Utta, the priest”
with Cynimund (Utta related the story of the miracle to Cynimund.) “it was related to him by Utta, the priest, in whose case and through whom the same was wrought.”

siblings with Adda “Adda was brother to Utta, whom we have mentioned before, a renowned priest, and abbot of the monastery which is called At the Goat’s Head.”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.