WULFSTAN  ,

archbishop of York from 1003 until his death in May 1023, and also bishop of Worcester from 1003 to 1o16, is generally held to be the author of a remarkable homily in alliterative English prose . Its title, taken from a manuscript, is Lupi sermo ad Anglos, quando Dani maxime prosecuti sunt cos, quod fuit anno 1.914 . It is an appeal to all classes to repent in the prospect of the imminent day of judgment, and gives a vivid picture of the desperate condition of England in the year of King Aethelred II.'s flight (1014) . Of the many other homilies ascribed to Wulfstan very few are authentic . Subsequent legislation, especially that of Canute, bears clear traces of his influence . See the edition of his homilies by A . Napier (Berlin, 1883) ; also the same writer's fiber die Werke des altenglischen Erzbischofs Wulfstan (Gottingen dissertation, 1882), and his paper in An English Miscellany (Oxford, 1901, pp . 355 f.) ; also A . Brandl in H . Paul's Grundriss der germanischen Philologie (2nd ed., 1901-1909), H. pp . 1110-1112 .