8 Point Homework

"Now I cannot recall any fight you entered, Unferth,
that bears comparison.  I don’t boast when I say that
neither you nor Breca were ever much celebrated for
swordsmanship or for facing danger on the field of
battle.  You killed your own kith and kin…"

I find this quote rather interesting for two reasons. 
The first reason is the last line of the quote, where
it says "You killed your own kith and kin…"  If one
flips back to the first page of the book, the author,
whoever he maybe, talks about genesis.  In Genesis,
Cain kills his brother, kin, Able.  It makes one
wonder how much of the story is true, and how much is
the author rambling.  It is easy to assume that the
author knew little about the characters, and was also
sitting in a monastery writing the piece.
	The next part that I really like about the quote is
the entire opening sentences.  Worth was judged not by
what you got on your SAT’s, but rather on whether or
not you were a man, whether or not you could kill, or
accept fate, and be killed.  Does this sound familiar.
 Sam Keen maybe?  Anyway, it also reminded me of the
scene in the Thirteenth Warrior, where they are
sitting around the table, I bet the writers didn’t
steal any of that from this poem, and their warrior
king is insulted by the prince of the hall.  He
responds with a rather similar quote.