<Tr> <Td> <P> Oft Scyld Scéfing--sceaþena þréatum monegum maégþum--meodosetla oftéah egsode Eorle--syððan aérest wearð féasceaft funde--hé þæs frófre gebád wéox under wolcnum--weorðmyndum þáh oð þæt him aéghwylc--þára ymbsittendra ofer hronráde--hýran scolde, gomban gyldan--þæt wæs gód cyning . </P> </Td> <Td> <P> There was Shield Sheafson, scourge of many tribes, A wrecker of mead - benches, rampaging among foes . This terror of the hall - troops had come far . A foundling to start with, he would flourish later on As his powers waxed and his worth was proved . In the end each clan on the outlying coasts Beyond the whale - road had to yield to him And begin to pay tribute . That was one good king . </P> </Td> </Tr> <P> Oft Scyld Scéfing--sceaþena þréatum monegum maégþum--meodosetla oftéah egsode Eorle--syððan aérest wearð féasceaft funde--hé þæs frófre gebád wéox under wolcnum--weorðmyndum þáh oð þæt him aéghwylc--þára ymbsittendra ofer hronráde--hýran scolde, gomban gyldan--þæt wæs gód cyning . </P> <P> There was Shield Sheafson, scourge of many tribes, A wrecker of mead - benches, rampaging among foes . This terror of the hall - troops had come far . A foundling to start with, he would flourish later on As his powers waxed and his worth was proved . In the end each clan on the outlying coasts Beyond the whale - road had to yield to him And begin to pay tribute . That was one good king . </P> <P> In 565, Columba, a monk from Ireland who studied at the monastic school of Moville under St. Finnian, reached Iona as a self - imposed exile . The influence of the monastery of Iona would grow into what Peter Brown has described as an "unusually extensive spiritual empire," which "stretched from western Scotland deep to the southwest into the heart of Ireland and, to the southeast, it reached down throughout northern Britain, through the influence of its sister monastery Lindisfarne ." </P>

The divine right of kings and why it was important to the anglo-saxons