Part one of term paper
It is agreed by almost all critics that Beowulf was once a pre-Christian poem but no one is completely sure how it went from pre-Christian to Christian influenced. There are many ideas of how it was written and one of the most popular theories is that the poem was already in poetic form and the author's own beliefs were added. Another theory ...

Part two of term paper
... in. It is obvious that some of these beliefs were added but no one knows to what amount they were added in. There are comparisons that can be made from Grendel to the Devil and Beowulf to Christ that seem to suggest that the Christian influence may have been more than just a couple words changed around, but these could have been just coincidental. Throughout the whole poem there are non-Christian practices and beliefs told. Some are the offering of sacrificing to idols, the observations of omen ...