When Hrothulf stands in the yard and "thinks out loud," one opinion he has of society is that

By standing in the yard and seeing the cruelty of the savage animals, Hrothulf thinks about the unfair socioeconomic situation of the Scylding community. Hrothulf wishes that the peasants could notice that the aristocrats depend on their work to satisfy their lives full of richness. Hrothulf describes the system as a promoter of the violence by dividing all the society members into different classes.