The Code of the Warrior and Devotion to the Lord

When aoma arrived, he announced that he brought a message from quitchelm, king of the goissa for edwin's ears. But as soon as he was close enough, aoma leaped at edwin with sacks raised to strike. Leda, a most devoted thane, saw this and interposed his own body to receive the blow. He thrust the weapon with such force that he killed the thane and wounded the king as well. I assume that aoma, the assassin, didn't make it out of there. And if you want another example of the code of the warrior and devotion to the lord, there it is for you, in leda's sacrifice.