Identify the context, and significance of the following pa…

  Identify the context, and significance of the following passage from Beowulf (4-6 good sentences):                                  No help or backing was to be had then                                 from his highborn comrades; that hand-picked troop                                 broke ranks and ran for their lives                                 to the safety of the wood.  But within one heart                                 sorrow welled up: in a man of worth                                 the claims of kinship cannot be denied.