Sudden Reiteration of virtue? Quotation.

The Sutton Hoo helm, a well known Anglo-Saxon artifact
excavated from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial in England
photo credit; myself, i took this at the British Museum in 2015.

From Beowulf, page 207 line 2538 to 2541.

Then that brave challenger stood up by his shield,

stern under his helmet, bore his battle-shirt

under the stone-cliffs, trusted the strength

of a single man -- such is not the coward's way.