Editing Dunstan (section)

===Birth and relatives===
According to Dunstan's earliest biographer, known only as 'B',{{efn|A charter of 955 is only attested by three clerical witnesses below the status of bishop, Dunstan and two deacons, Byrhthelm and Æthelferth, and [[Michael Lapidge]] suggests that the deacons were Dunstan's personal secretaries and Byrhthelm may have been 'B'.{{sfn|Lapidge|1993|pp=285–286; [https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter/582.html# S 582]}} }} his parents were called Heorstan and Cynethryth and they lived near [[Glastonbury]]. B states that Dunstan was "''oritur''" in the days of King [[Æthelstan]], 924 to 939. "''Oritur''" has often been taken to mean "born", but this is unlikely as another source states that he was ordained during Æthelstan's reign, and he would have been under the minimum age of 30 if he was born no earlier than 924. It is more likely that "''oritur''" should be taken as "emerged" and that he was born around 910. B states that he was related to [[Ælfheah the Bald]], the [[Bishop of Winchester]] and [[Cynesige of Lichfield|Cynesige]], [[Bishop of Lichfield]]. According to a later biographer, [[Adelard of Ghent]], he was a nephew of [[Athelm]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], but this is less certain as it is not mentioned by B, who should have known as he had been a member of Dunstan's household.{{sfn|Lapidge|2004}}