Lines 883-896 ~ After his death Sigemund’s glory grew and grew because of his courage when he killed the dragon…Wael’s son weighted her hold with dazzling spoils. The hot dragon melted.
This is a parallelism to Beowulf’s dragon encounter. Beowulf goes to fight the dragon alone (although Beowulf is eventually assisted by Wiglaf whereas Sigemund did not receive help) and does ultimately kill the dragon. Sigemund fills a boat with all of the Dragonss treasure; Beowulf’s men create a giant mound of treasure on Beowulf’s funeral pyre.
Parallelism/structure. Good!
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