Read the sentence. neither schools nor banks are open on the third monday in january because it is a national holiday honoring dr. martin luther king, jr.what is the subordinating conjunction in the sentence?

The subordinating conjunction in the sentence is "because".

Explanation:

Subordinating conjunctions are those parts of speech that joins two clauses together, with one clause being a dependent clause and the the other an independent clause. In the provided sentence,

 "Neither schools nor banks are open on the third Monday in January because it is a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr",

the "Neither schools nor banks are open on the third Monday in January" is the independent clause and "it is a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr" is a dependent clause. And joining these two clauses is "because". Thus, it is the subordinating conjunction as it joins the two clauses- dependent and independent clauses.

Unclear question. However,  I inferred you want to know where the statement is gotten from.

A statement made by author  Burton Raffel.

Explanation:

Beowulf is an epic poem whose main character is named Beowulf. This young warrior travels to Denmark with the aim of defeating his enemy named Grendel, in which he was successful.

After defeating several enemies during his lifetime, now old Beowulf decides to fight a dragon that was causing trouble for his people. Sadly, even though he killed the dragon, Beowulf died  shortly after the encounter because he was biten by the dragon  in the neck. It is at this point the statement made at the outset becomes clear, "a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood..."