Tom Loughman and John Finley investigate how is Beowulf as a leader of his people, specify the ways why Beowulf is an exemplary of charismatic leadership, and analyze how the poem displays the overreliance upon a ring-giver is a risk. The authors, Loughman and Finley caption this “Beowulf and the Teaching of Leadership” and argues that Beowulf is an exemplification of an appealing leader. In the Old English poem Beowulf, the warrior battles with three monsters: Grendel, Grendel’s mother and an infuriated dragon. In the first battle, Grendel attacks the mead hall and attempts to grasp Beowulf’s arm, but then Grendel exits with his arm cut off. Grendel’s mother seeks vengeance and fights Beowulf, but Beowulf found a sword and slaughters Grendel’s mother. After 50 years, the King of Geats encounters a dragon and vows to slay it but due to his age, he became feeble and the dragon executed him. Only Wiglaf, Beowulf’s nephew remains by his side. Finley and Loughman’s topic is legitimate. Beowulf is an exceptional ruler.

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When the dragon appears, the bravery of his retainers was gone. Beowulf’s comrades left him while suffering in fire. Finley and Loughman added (160) “Although Beowulf has treated them with respect, praise, and rewards his retainers leave him high and dry to suffer his fate with the fire-breathing wyrm.” Subsequently, the Geatish people’s King elapsed leaving them without an heir to his throne. Finley and Loughman claims that a leader must have an heir to his throne for future