"A warrior will sooner die than live a life of shame," means that a warrior values their pride over their own life during battle. The scope of this course was to analyze the literary tropes of warriors and saints in medieval literature. They undertook campaigns of heroism and were later immortalized through songs of their victories. Stories of saints narrate their religious devotion, and through such devotion they receive the title of saints by the catholic church. Below are some samples of essays written about medieval warriors.
This artifact analyses the use of names, or lack thereof, to comment the relation between social status in medieval times and the awarding of a name of the main female characters in "Beowulf" and "The Song of the Nibelungs." The main argument is that the nobility of a character will award them with a name like for example, Queen Brunhilde. Nobility also implies beauty, and by not being noble one could be considered repulsive. Grendel's mother is only referred to as that very same epithet because she is not noble, therefore she is repulsive and not deserving of a name.
An ideal king must possesses certain qualities. The artifact looks for examples of ideal characteristics of a good king by analyzing the monarchic ruler in "The Song of Roland" through Charlemagne and "The Poem of the Cid" through King Alphonse.