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Figure 31. A map of Skalagrim’s settlement in Borgarfjord. � = Borg Skalagrim’s farm.
� = The farms of Yngvar, Olaf and Grim. �= The households or secondary farms
under the manor Borg. � = The farms of the free and freed shipmates, i.e. An, Grani,
Thorbjorn, Thord, Thorir and Thorgeir. � = The production units.
words to them knowing that in the future the retainers will do as told by their superiors,
the good men.
As mentioned above, the setting of tragedies like that of Finnsburg is in fact
known as a type in the archaeological record, where several examples of smashed
halls occur from the Late Iron and Viking Ages. There are at least two splendid Iron
Age examples on the west coast of Jutland, Dejbjerg (Hansen 1993; 1996) and
Dankirke (Hansen 1990) characterised by broken glass vessels and weapon fragments.
This destruction was most likely the work of Jutes, Friesians or Danes.
The second narrative that treats the theme of reconciliation is of course a parallel
to the first and therefore occurs after the second combat scene, which was in itself a
parallel to the first one. The first combat scene is rather simple, but the second is
more complicated. The second reconciliation narrative is similarly more complex
than the first. It runs from verse 1803 to 1880 or 1887 and contains the leave-taking
of Beowulf and his men.
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