{"id":145259,"date":"2026-05-19T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145259"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:51:24","slug":"eleanor-parker-an-anglo-saxon-hymn-to-st-dunstan-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145259","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Parker\u2013An Anglo-Saxon Hymn to St Dunstan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The text comes from Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, ed. Inge B. Milfull (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 317-8. Here\u2019s a translation:<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/an-anglo-saxon-hymn-to-st-dunstan.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">19 May is the feast of St Dunstan, one of the greatest saints of Anglo-Saxon England, who died in 988. Archbishop of Canterbury during a transformative time for the English church and nation, he was also a talented musician, craftsman and devil-fighter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HblFsbRp5o\">https:\/\/t.co\/HblFsbRp5o<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Cfss1LEaI\">pic.twitter.com\/1Cfss1LEaI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClerkofOxford\/status\/2056624957677764903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\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\u2019s 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=145259\">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":[67,186,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145259","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=145259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145261,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145259\/revisions\/145261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}