Line 620-624 "So the Helming woman wen on her rounds, queenly and dignified, decked out in rings, offering the goblet to the ranks, treating the household and the assembled troop until it was Beowulf's turn to take it from her hand." In this quote it is telling us she is a Helming woman and her husband is Hrothgar who is a Dane so it is telling us that she was a peace pledge between them.
Line 590-594 "The fact is, Unferth, if you were truly as keen or courageous as you claim to be Grendel would never have gotten away with such unchecked atrocity, attack on your king, havoc in Herot and horrors everywhere." Beowulf is saying that if Unferth is such the good warrior as he says he is he should have killed Grendel already and Beowulf wouldn't have had to come to there rescue.
Okay - these are decent. You going in the right direction. Now start to link dialectical entries according to a theme or an idea.
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