Beowulf
What religious viewpoints under lie the prologue?
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Beowulf questions
The original epic was delivered by traveling scops who were pagan and believed in some "old" gods more like those of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic peoples. The manuscript was written by a Christian monk who could not resist putting his own Christian values in the story as well.