In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?

Banishment

Everlasting shame

conversation to Christianity

Mild melancholia

Explanation

The literature of the Anglo-Saxons is abundant in heroic, or epic, poetry: narrative poems which recount the deeds of heroic figures who overcome significant challenges in the pursuit of goals that were deemed virtuous by the standards of the day.