> "Most of the eel rents were paid in East Anglia" Incidentally "eel" in Spanish is "anguila" (pronounced very similar), which leads me to strongly believe the

> "Most of the eel rents were paid in East Anglia" Incidentally "eel" in Spanish is "anguila" (pronounced very similar), which leads me to strongly believe these two are related. However a quick search finds out that those are actually unrelated! Spanish "anguila" comes from latin's "anguilla", and this from "anguis" (snake). While the name East Anglia comes from the German region named "Anglia", which comes from the German word "Angeln". Note: the Caribbean island Anguilla's name does come from "eel" for its shape, but that's a more clear later phenomena.