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... : Then they set the shoes on his sturdy feet, And clad his calves about with comely greaves, And plate well-polished protected his knees, Affixed with fastenings of the finest gold. Fair cuisses enclosed, that were cunningly wrought, His thick-thewed thighs, with thongs bound fast, And massy chain-mail of many a steel ring He bore on his body, above the ... ...
... : Then they set the shoes on his sturdy feet, And clad his calves about with comely greaves, And plate well-polished protected his knees, Affixed with fastenings of the finest gold. Fair cuisses enclosed, that were cunningly wrought, His thick-thewed thighs, with thongs bound fast, And massy chain-mail of many a steel ring He bore on his body, above the ... ...
... , king of the Danes, is one example of the Anglo-Saxon measurement of importance in Beowulf. In Canto 1 the story teller describes his wealth and importance, not as mounds of gold or jewels, but instead as his ability to "[lead] the Danes to such glory." and as his tendency to "In battle, [leave] the common pasture untouched, and taking no lives ... ...
