Beowulf is an epic that is important because it shows Anglo Saxon characteristics that include loyalty, personnel indebtedness, heroism, and fame. Loyalty to the Anglo Saxon means that if a ruler needed a solider no matter what the situations or barriers that solider would serve his ruler. Several examples of this are in Beowulf:

“‘I remember how we sat in the mead-hall, drinking / And boasting of how brave we’d be wh

The Anglo Saxon society’s characteristics are in the important epic Beowulf. Loyalty, being a hero, fame, fate, and Christianity were all very important in the Anglo Saxon's society. Beowulf shows all the ideas in the Anglo Saxon’s lives and shows how society changes because of the belief change from fate to Christianity. Even though Beowulf was not in written form until several years after it was first told it shows the begin, middle, and end of Anglo Saxon history. It does tell the whole story of the Anglo Saxons and how they lived.

en Beowulf / Needed us, he who gave us these swords / And armor: all of us swore to repay him, / When the time came, kindness with kindness /---With our lives, if he needed them’ ” (745-750).

Fate and Christianity are two more ideas of Anglo Saxon history. In the beginning, Anglo Saxons believed in fate and thought that the Gods

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