The adoption of the Christian religoin around the world changed the cultures and views of many people as it spread. The religious beliefs of the people of Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxans changed dramatically when Christianity was introduced. With christianity coming into play of the pre-christian germans and the Anglo-Saxans the daily lifestyles and even the gods were altered. This is shown with how the people in Beowulf story was influenced by Christianity..
Before the Christian religion was brought upon the Pre-christian German people, God was not thier only diety. The German religion was originally polythiestic. There were two groups of gods thats the Germans believed in: the Aesir and the Vanir. The head of the gods and the one that is most well known is Woden or Odin. Other important dieties for the German people were Tiw …show more content…
This is becasuse Beowulf was supposedly written some time between 700 and 1000 AD which was after the majority of the Germanic people had been converted into Christians. Many groups of the
Germanic people were spread around Europe so the times that they converted very. The Vandals seem to have been converted when in Spain in 409–429, the Burgundians when in eastern Gaul in 412–436, and the Ostrogoths in Pannonia about 456–472. The last Germanic people on the European continent to be converted to Christianity were the Old Saxons. Christianity was spread to the Anglo-Saxons by the Gregorian Mission, which was a mission by Pope Gregory in the late 6th and early 7th century, he sent a group of Italian monks and priests to convert and Christianize the Anglos from their Pagan beliefs. At first, the Anglo's were unappreciative of Christian values and didn't approve of them, however as time went on Christianity came to be the dominating religious
Before the Christian religion was brought upon the Pre-christian German people, God was not thier only diety. The German religion was originally polythiestic. There were two groups of gods thats the Germans believed in: the Aesir and the Vanir. The head of the gods and the one that is most well known is Woden or Odin. Other important dieties for the German people were Tiw …show more content…
This is becasuse Beowulf was supposedly written some time between 700 and 1000 AD which was after the majority of the Germanic people had been converted into Christians. Many groups of the
Germanic people were spread around Europe so the times that they converted very. The Vandals seem to have been converted when in Spain in 409–429, the Burgundians when in eastern Gaul in 412–436, and the Ostrogoths in Pannonia about 456–472. The last Germanic people on the European continent to be converted to Christianity were the Old Saxons. Christianity was spread to the Anglo-Saxons by the Gregorian Mission, which was a mission by Pope Gregory in the late 6th and early 7th century, he sent a group of Italian monks and priests to convert and Christianize the Anglos from their Pagan beliefs. At first, the Anglo's were unappreciative of Christian values and didn't approve of them, however as time went on Christianity came to be the dominating religious