CHAPTER XXVIII

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THE REIGN OF EDGAR.

Power of Dunstan--He is made Archbishop of Canterbury--He appoints his own friends counsellors to the young king--His encouragement of the fine arts--Enforces the Benedictine rules upon the monks--Speech of Edgar in favour of Dunstan's reformation in the monasteries--Romantic adventure of Elfrida, daughter of the Earl of Devonshire--Death of Athelwold-- Personal courage of Edgar--His love of pomp, and generosity-- His encouragement of foreign artificers--His tribute of wolves' heads--England infested with wolves long after the commencement of the Saxon period--Many of the Saxon names derived from the wolf--Death of Edgar--Elfric's sketch of his character-- Changes wrought by Edgar p. 233

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