Journal lines 853-1320

Lines 873-874 "He told what he'd heard repeated in songs about Sigemund's exploits."
Foreshadow to the parallelism that will be drawn between Beowulf and Sigemund.

Lines 883-914 "After his death...entered into Heremod."
Two stories are told by the scop here. The first is of Sigemund, and how he faced the battle with the dragon alone and came out victorious. This is both a parallelism and a contrast to Beowulf's own dragon battle. Beowulf is victorious in a way, because he kills the dragon. However, he is also defeated because he gets killed in the process. The second story is the story of king Heremod, and how he was such a bad king and had become such a burden that his men basically left him alone and let him die. While Beowulf's men make no move to help him during his battle with the dragon, I do not believe it is for the same reasons that Heremod's men allowed him to die.

Lines 931-932 "I would never be granted the slightest solace or relief from any of my burdens."
Hrothgar is obviously saying that without Beowulf, Grendel never would have been defeated. But I believe these words have a double meaning. I think it's possible that Hrothgar is also speaking about the burden of having the debt of a wergild owed to him. If Beowulf had never paid back his father's debt, Hrothgar would eventually have had to do something about it, entering into a feud, something which his country hasn't seen yet. Maybe this is ridiculous and it means just what it says, I don't know.

Lines 1017-1018 "The Shielding nation was not yet familiar with feud and betrayal."
Because of the use of the words "not yet" this leads me to believe that this is a foreshadow. Perhaps some great feud or betrayal will befall this country sometime in the future.

Line 1163 "each one of whom still trusted the other."
This suggests that Hrothgar and Hrothulf will not trust each other sometime in the future. I believe this is a foreshadow of Hrothulf's betrayal of Hrothgar in defying Hrothgar's sons and usurping the throne, even though it does not belong to him. Also showing the honor of Beowulf in that even though he has the option to be king, Beowulf steps aside and lets Hrothulf have the throne (perhaps even knowing he will be a bad king) because Hrothulf has more right to it than Beowulf does.