Beowulf

Beowulf, a legendary story created in the 700’s, is filled with examples of literature that has been influenced and based on an important historical transformation in northern Europe. The transformation is the conversion of the Celtic’s Pagan religion to Christianity. Since the Celtic’s could not read or write, but the monk’s of the Christian church could, these scribes put their Christian beliefs into literature. A great example of this if the story of Beowulf. One example is when the text talks of how G...