This takes part in the Role of Warriors and as a theme that a warrior must go out into battle and do great deeds so that a poets will sing of them. It is also what Comitatus is based off of, the idea of doing something great to up your status.
Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an object for that of what is actually meant.
Example: In Beowulf the word Iron replaces sword as well as in Moby Dick for harpoon.
This use is used simply to capture what it would be like in real life and to set the "mood" of the piece.
Good use of examples from our current readings.
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