Hild is from the Old English hild (battle). **Saint Hild of Whitby (614-680)** was the Anglo-Saxon princess and **abbess of Whitby Abbey** — Bede called her "mother" of his church. **She presided over the Synod of Whitby (664) that decided the Roman date of Easter for England**, and discovered the poet Cædmon, the first known English poet.
Cited as one of the great unifying figures of early English Christianity.
Hild reduces to eight — the number of Whitby abbess.