# St. Dunstan — The Four Men character guide

> St. Dunstan in The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dunstan

**First appearance:** 0004-the-twenty-ninth-of-october-1902

## Snapshot

He belongs to the older, stranger layer of the county's imagination, the kind of figure invoked when the walkers speak of shrines and sanctities of many kinds.

## Who they are

He belongs to the older, stranger layer of the county's imagination, the kind of figure invoked when the walkers speak of shrines and sanctities of many kinds. His presence sharpens the sense that Sussex is not merely landscape but a place thick with legend, where the holy and the everyday brush against each other. He matters to the early arc because he helps establish the book's central conceit: that this journey is a pilgrimage as much as a stroll.

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