Lessons Learned From Leaders In Beowulf

Lessons Learned from Leaders of Legend
At the second feast in the epic, Beowulf, poetry is sung to demonstrate a specific moral to the listeners. The singer sang of two rulers of Anglo-Saxon legend Siegmund and Finn. Each illustration of the rulers’ deeds presented crucial lessons for Beowulf. The moral of Siegmund’s story was that greed and arrogance destroy kingdoms. Finn’s moral, on the other hand, demonstrated that cruelty and dishonor bring disrespect to whomsoever acts disreputably.
Siegmund was a great leader in Anglo-Saxon mythology for killing giants, monsters, and even a dragon. Siegmund’s nephew, Fitela, helped kill the giants and monsters, but Siegmund, conquered the dragon on his own. Upon defeating the dragon, Siegmund, took the