Examples Of Kingship In Beowulf

Orison Marden states that “There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king.” Kingship is the idea of how a king decides to be towards the people, how a king wants to run the kingdom, tribe, or land and how a king decides to himself in times of struggle or when there is no struggle at all. The Old English poem, Beowulf, involves many ideals in which one of the biggest is the ideal of kingship. In this poem, the poet mentions many great kings within two different tribes that have similar cultural characteristics. The poet uses the various kings in the poem to define kingship throughout the poem. Particularly the poet focuses on using Hrothgar and Beowulf