Which feature of Anglo-Saxon culture is reflected in the passage

The passage is as follows:

"I will take this message,

in accordance with your wish, to our noble king,

our dear lord, friend of the Danes,

the giver of rings."

-Beowulf: A New Verse Translation,

Seamus Heaney

The feature of Anglo-Saxon culture that is reflected in the passage is:

the expectation that a king gives gifts to his thanes