Unferth: A Possible Theme In Beowulf

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The visible theme in the selected passage is to forgive than to hold small grudges.
When Beowulf first appears in Heorot, Unferth becomes jealous because the King was giving more attention to Beowulf than to Unferth. As time progresses, Unferth creates a grudge over Beowulf.
When Hrothgar's men were helping Beowulf armour up, Unferth decides to help and choose “ to forget old quarrels, gave him his sword, With hilt of twisted gold, of steel infallible, Hrunting his name.”(10)
Unferth realizes that Beowulf is the more superior warrior compared to him and decides to give him his infallible sword. Unferth’s sword has a ‘hilt of twisted gold, of steel infallible,” The sword which Unferth gives seems to be very valuable because the author's
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