To extend the Beowulf section of this essay with best effect would require my gaining a better knowledge of Old English and also the background in literature. Since this work is to address the success formulas of the Elder Ways there are some limits to my writing time owed to my meeting the very responsibilities, values,and areas of life that are represented here. Considerable success and valued endeavor has been created since I began this essay about two years ago.

I bring an experiential bias to this work with my interest in returning the heroic and prosperous dynamic spirit of our past age. There has already been too much of the hijacking of European metaphysics (or rather a false invention of modern interpretation) by forces of political Marxist or socialist agendas. I have seen way too much poverty and suffering in the neo-pagan community owed to this hijacking by means of misinterpretation.

While the quality of this work will need upgrading in the future I'd still like to continue with my own theorys that I hope will increase our frith and weal. We should live in dynamic, creative, peace and we should have prosperity.

There are three monsters that are defeated by Beowulf and we have only gotten to the first. As mentioned earlier, the less well-known part of this epic is that the young hero returned home to become the supporter of the rightful leader of his own people and eventually become king himself. The hero fights those monsters who threaten the tribe and is loyal to strong leaders who protect and advance the tribe. Our lesson here is that to protect our happiness and prosperity there are opponents to be defeated. And there are communitys that share our victorys.

It is the human structure of kindred or tribal society that serves the hero who serves the tribe. Wunjo could be seen as a rune that describes this mutual support of the tribe's strength and the individual's personal power. There is no exclusion of the community interests and the individual interests. There is a battle that leads to peace. The Gimle that translates as 'Gem Roof' from Icelandic is the teleology of our quest. This should not be forgotten by the immature anarchists who only aspire to leveling of our interests and merits while reveling in misery. Any claim they have to directing our purpose is bogus. This essay is an attempt to show through the primary sources of the 'Rigsthula' of the Poetic Edda and the Beowulf study now being studied that there is another more effective approach to the Elder Ways. The individual can find transformation and have a reciprocal benifit to the tribe.

On pages 119 - 123 of the Heaney translation, Hrothgar gives advice on how to be a considerate and respected leader. Hrothgar can see that the time would come when the Geats would need Beowulf to be king. This is advice worth reading for how we should conduct ourselves toward each other. An interesting comment on tradtional values is given on page 127. Hrothgar says, "I know your people are beyond reproach in every respect, steadfast in the old way with friend and foe." Foes are defeated and friends are honored.

So this is one of the Heathen values that advance the individual life and the Kindred. There are mainstream political forces today that would try to deceive us into not keeping this principle. Homogenized 'globalism' would have us abandon our tribal connections for an abstract sloganeering of ineffective altruism and aggression against other people. In standing up to them by living rightly we are keeping the heretical imperative.