26 it is of old testament lapses rather than of any events in england ( of which he is not speaking ) that the poet is thinking in lines 175 ff. , and this colours his manner of allusion to knowledge which he may have derived from native traditions concerning the danes and the special heathen religious significance of the site of heorot ( hleiorar , at hargtrafum , the tabernacles ) -it was possibly a matter that embittered the feud of danes and heathobeards .