The anonymous poet of Beowulf wrote about the Geats and the Danes, Germanic tribes who lived in pre-Christian times on the continent. The plot of the storyline, therefore, has many referrals to pagan beliefs and superstitious traditions. On the other hand, a guy who lived in Anglo-Saxon Britain constructed the poem; therefore, there are cases in the poem of Judeo-Christian values. The poem, therefore, talks of both Wyrd and God of both Germanic Destiny that directs men's lives..
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