It was a paved track, a path that kept them

in marching order. Their mail-shirts glinted,

hard and hand-linked; the high-gloss iron

of their armour rang.

–Beowulf: A New Verse Translation,
Seamus Heaney

Read the passage about Beowulf’s followers. Which inference is best supported by the passage?

The warriors do not trust their leader.
The warriors are lost.
The warriors are disciplined and well equipped.