While at Canterbury he promoted the cult of Dunstan, ordering the writing of the second Life of Dunstan, which Adelard composed between 1006 and 1011.

Thus this report of a feud between Eadwig and Dunstan could either have been based on a true incident of a political quarrel for power between a young king and powerful church officials who wished to control the king and who later spread this legend to blacken his reputation, or it could be an urban legend ; the Chronicle also tells of Odo putting aside the King's marriage on the grounds Eadwig and his wife were " too related ".

Relations between Archbishop Dunstan and Bishop Æthelwold may have been strained.

Indeed, the 1968 election, fought between Hall and his Labor opponent Don Dunstan, was described by the Democratic Labor Party as the battle of " the matinee idols ".

Infuriated by this, Dunstan dragged Eadwig back and forced him to renounce the girl as a " strumpet ".

Later realizing that he had provoked the king, Dunstan fled to the apparent sanctuary of his cloister, but Eadwig, incited by Æthelgifu, followed him and plundered the monastery.

Upon Eadwig's death in October 959, Edgar immediately recalled Dunstan ( eventually canonised as St. Dunstan ) from exile to have him made Bishop of Worcester ( and subsequently Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury ).

One afternoon Hank Dunstan appeared to claim a package due him.

Dunstan gives Tristran the snowdrop and helps him pass the guards at the wall by alluding to his faerie heritage.

She intends to marry him, but when Ramsay refuses, she confers upon him his new name, Dunstan, after the saint who fought off the temptations of the Devil.

But Boy is generous to take care of his struggling and frugal friend Dunstan by providing him with investment information.

And Dunstan is very jealous and upset to have to hear about this, but that doesn ’ t stop him from taking Boy ’ s investment tips.

Dunstan recognizes the man as the tramp he saw in the pit with Mary Dempster all those years ago, and follows the man to talk to him.

Dunstan ’ s mind is opened up to the possibility of illusions and parables being more real than truths, and that Mary redeemed this tramp and made him into an honest God-fearing man.

In 1929 Boy protects Dunstan from experiencing the Great Depression by having him invest in Boy ’ s own company, the Alpha Corporation, which is a sugar-refining business.

By an astonishing coincidence, the young magician who jumps up on stage turns out to be an older and sleazier Paul Dempster, who has obviously made a living on the trade Dunstan first schooled him in some 15 years earlier.

Dunstan continues his weekly visits with Mary Dempster, but it is becoming a chore to him.

Leola tries to seduce Dunstan and remind him of when they were together.

Dunstan temporarily joins Paul ’ s entourage, creating for him the illusion of the Brazen Head, a kind of fortune-telling act.

One night after the show, Dunstan, hoping to catch a glimpse of Faustina, finds her naked and passionately kissing Liesl ; the experience deflates him and sends him into deep depression.

She then attempts to roughly seduce him ; Dunstan becomes enraged and furiously attacks Liesl, breaking and bloodying her nose before she escapes through the door.

She suggests that Dunstan is suffering from the " revenge of the unlived life ": the guilt he feels over events in his life have prevented him from truly living it: he still agonizes over Mary Dempster's condition, and he's never realized just how good he was to accept Leola as a friend when she rejected him in favour of Boy, and even to accept Boy who insisted on mocking him for losing out in their love triangle.

In 1959, Mrs. Dempster dies after Dunstan transferred her to a private hospital more to her liking using the funds from Eisengrims's biography as well as monthly payments from him ; Dunstan takes care of her cremation and funeral.

Boy and Leola are married and travel to Europe, and Dunstan visits the continent for his own amusements.

As Dunstan develops into an eccentric teacher, Boy tries to educate Leola into a higher social standing without much success.

Dunstan is only too thrilled to hear about Boy ’ s successes and how Leola is getting old.

Dunstan becomes an eccentric friend for Boy to promote at his various social functions.

In this chapter Dunstan also covers the early years of David and Caroline Staunton, along with Boy ’ s rampant philandering.

That Christmas proves to be the undoing of the Stauntons, and by the time Dunstan arrives for dinner, Boy has stormed off, Leola is crying, and the kids are traumatized for life.

Dunstan is sure the nurse has read this note, and possibly told the children, but he has the unfortunate duty of helping Leola return to life, as Boy has disappeared on a drinking binge and does not return for many weeks.

Dunstan handles her funeral arrangements, as Boy is consumed in his work as the head of the fictional Alpha Corporation for the duration of World War II.

At the conclusion of the war Boy has the unenviable task of informing Dunstan that he will not be continuing as Headmaster, due to his perceived peculiar interests and lifestyle, although Boy admits that those same traits make Dunstan an asset as a professor at the university.

Boy agrees on behalf of the Board, and Dunstan leaves on his sabbatical.

Boy and Dunstan are nearing their sixties ; Dunstan senses that old, long-concealed parts of their personalities, such as Boy's inability to deal with events that do not unfold according to his desires, and his own propensity to unleash a sharp-tongued comment in the middle of a conversation, are re-emerging.

After the performance, Paul, Dunstan and Boy meet in Dunstan ’ s room for a short chat.

He was baptised by Dunstan, and a story was told at Glastonbury Abbey that as the infant was baptised, his hand made a motion much like that an archbishop makes when blessing.

He got as far as the village of Poynings ( an area known as the Devil's Dyke ) when he was disturbed by a cock crowing ( one version of the story claims that it was the prayers of St Dunstan that made all the local cocks crow earlier than usual ).

It is the first installment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay.

1. The story of Dunstan ( then called Dunstable ) Ramsay ’ s life begins in 1908 when Ramsay is 10 years old.

Dunstan ends his story with the words, “ And that, Headmaster, is all I have to tell you .”

Also present during the story are Eisengrim's friends Dunstan Ramsay and Liesl, who both appear in the earlier instalments of the Deptford Trilogy.

It has been suggested that Goscelin may have chosen to enhance Edith's story by associating Dunstan with her translation.