{"id":112307,"date":"2022-05-19T07:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112307"},"modified":"2022-05-19T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T11:37:47","slug":"eleanor-parker-an-anglo-saxon-hymn-to-st-dunstan-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112307","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Parker&#8211;An Anglo-Saxon Hymn to St Dunstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The text comes from Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, ed. Inge B. Milfull (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 317-8. Here&#8217;s a translation:<\/p>\n<p>Hail Dunstan, star and shining adornment of bishops, true light of the English nation and leader preceding it on its path to God.<\/p>\n<p>You are the greatest hope of your people, and also an innermost sweetness, breathing the honey-sweet fragrance of life-giving balms.<\/p>\n<p>In you, Father, we trust, we to whom nothing is more pleasing than you are. To you we stretch out our hands, to you we pour out our prayers&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/an-anglo-saxon-hymn-to-st-dunstan.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the feast of St Dunstan, English bishop, reformer and restorer of monastic life. Here in glass at Peterborough Cathedral, by Powell &amp; Sons presumably, and a detail of Moira Forsyth&#39;s 1964 Benedictines window at Norwich Cathedral. He is the patron saint of blacksmiths. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7CCGXSGwBn\">pic.twitter.com\/7CCGXSGwBn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@last_of_england) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/last_of_england\/status\/1527172943020695552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text comes from Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, ed. Inge B. Milfull (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 317-8. Here&#8217;s a translation: Hail Dunstan, star and shining adornment of bishops, true light of the English nation and leader preceding it on its<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112307\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,186,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112312,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112307\/revisions\/112312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}