... age, life and death, rise and fall of nations and individuals, friendship and desertion (sự ruồng bỏ), faithfulness and betrayal (sự phản bội), heroism and cowardice (sự hèn nhát), hope and resignation ... The poem contains two songs, "The Lay of Sigemund" and "The Lay of Finnsburg," that show a likeness and between these two stories and and the Middle High German epic poem ... Hrothgar and Queen 24 Wealhtheow, and of the joy and feasting and story-telling in Heorot. The picture of Wealhtheow passing the mead cup to the warriors with her own hand is a noble one, and...