Thus St.
Dunstan, who governed England in the time of Edwy the Fair, was a skilled blacksmith and metallurgist.

He is said to have had a forge even in his bedroom, and it was there that his reputed encounter with Satan occurred, in which of course the saint came off the victor.
There was another monk of St.

Alban's, called Anketil, who flourished in the twelfth century, so famous for his skill as a worker in iron, silver, gold, jewelry, and gilding, that he was invited by the king of Denmark to be his goldsmith and banker.

A pair of gold and silver candlesticks of his manufacture, presented by the abbot of St.

Alban's to Pope Adrian IV., were so much esteemed for their exquisite workmanship that they were consecrated to St.