Anglo-Saxon was a tribe of both the Anglos and Saxons that came together to settle in Great Britain. During the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons, they began to combine different words and languages that were left by invaders from other countries that had soon impacted our English language that we know today. This group of people contained their own culture that is quite similar to our cultures today. Even though our English language is very similar to one another’s, their value systems and perspectives of the world were viewed differently than ours in today’s time. In the Anglo-Saxon world view they valued fame, courage, religion, and their fate. Where they were to end up if anything happened by faith or by choice.
By the things that we know, the Anglo-Saxons have been telling the story of Beowulf for quite some time. The reason the story continues to be told all the time is because they see the story as a heroic story and it’s
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In the beginning of their settlement they came into Britain as Pagans but as time passed they gradually converted to Christianity. Pagans worshiped different gods each having to control a particular part in everyday life. In the later years, the pope in Rome had sent a missionary to England to persuade them to become Christians. Christianity had then become popular and spread to other parts of Britain. From then on the Anglo-Saxons worshiped only one god and everything they said and did revolved around the concept of god. For example, in the saga Beowulf the monster Grendel had proclaimed that he would feast on anyone he could get his hands on but wouldn’t dare go near the throne of the kingdom because that is where they believed god was present. Therefore, Grendel had obeyed that even though it was a love of god that he could never understand. Their world view on religion was overall contradicting, it isn’t really the same kind of Christianity that goes on