[1] But some relics of his literary work were
preserved at Glastonbury until the Reformation--passages
transcribed from Frank and Roman law books, a pamphlet
on grammar, a mass of Biblical quotations, a collection of
canons drawn from Dunstan's Irish teachers, a book on
the Apocalypse, and other works.[2] He entirely reformed
Glastonbury and made it a flourishing school, where the
Scriptures, ecclesiastical writings, and grammar were taught.
Ethelwold was a Glastonbury scholar and assistant to
Dunstan. Glastonbury, and Abingdon, where he became
Abbot, and Winchester, to which see he was consecrated,
were the centres whence, during the sixty years succeeding
Edgar's accession, some forty monasteries were founded
or restored. Winchester became pre-eminent. Ethelwold
himself was a teacher of grammar. It was his delight to
teach boys and young men, and to help them in their
translations; hence it came to pass that many of his pupils
became abbots and bishops.[3] A curious story is told in
illustration of his studious disposition. One night, when
reading after prolonged watching, sleep overcame him, and
as he slept the candle fell on the page and remained burning
there until a brother came along and snatched it up,
when the book by a miracle was found to be uninjured.
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