Identify the context and significance of the following quota…

Identify the context and significance of the following quotation from Beowulf (4-6 good sentences):                  There was a feud one time, begun by your father.                 With his own hands he had killed Heatholaf                 who was a Wulfing; so war was looming  and his people, in fear of it, forced him to leave. . . .                 Finally I healed the feud by paying:                 I shipped a treasure-trove to the Wulfings,                 And Ecgtheow acknowledged me with oaths of allegiance