... many Christian elements from characters to themes throughout the story. The will of God appear to be aligned if not the alias of fate. Beowulf, the character, is an attempt at adapting Jesus to the Anglo-Saxon cultural vision of a ... ness." She goes on to state clearly the presence of Christian thought and theme within Beowulf. "All these foregoing examples of similarities between Old English (later Miltonic) concepts of Satan and the Beowulf poet's concept of Grendel, display, what seems to be increasingly discovered of late: some ... devil are used virtually interchangeably in liter...

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