Question

Which feature of Anglo-Saxon culture is reflected in the passage

Answer 1

The passage is as follows:

"I will take this message,
in accordance with your wish, to our noble king,
our dear lord, friend of the Danes,
the giver of rings."
-Beowulf: A New Verse Translation,
Seamus Heaney

The feature of Anglo-Saxon culture that is reflected in the passage is:

the expectation that a king gives gifts to his thanes