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Dunstan and Canute
King Edgar came to the throne in 955 and reigned peacefully for twenty years. The power behind the throne was a nobleman and a church man who later became a saint. Dunstan became Abbot of Glastonbury at the age of 18 and was later made Archbishop of Canterbury. He did great works rebuilding the English monastic orders. He also encouraged building and decoration, learning and the written word. Edgar, under the tutelage of St Dunstan, was a very religious man. He became King of Wessex when he was 16. He married twice, his successor Edward was his son by his first marriage. Edgar died in 975 and was succeeded by Edward the Martyr who was murdered while visiting his step mother and his half brother Aethelred, who succeeded him and who was known as the Unready. In 980 serious raids began again from Ireland, Scandinavia and Denmark. The next thirty years were once again turbulent. Aethelred was forced to pay enormous amounts of money to the marauding Vikings as bribes - this was known as Danegeld.
 
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