... queen. The author praises King Offa for putting the woman in her proper role. Perhaps this reflects a masculine fear of female uprising. The author reinforces this view of appropriate female roles by presenting two separate and opposing supernatural forces that strongly influence the plot of Beowulf: a masculine God and a feminine Wyrd, suggesting that feminine forces require suppression. Wyrd is a mysterious force that acts as a kind ... of fate, bringing the heroes of Beowulf ever closer to misery and death; in contrast, God protects Beowulf and helps him in the battle of "light again...

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