Anglo Saxon Culture In Beowulf

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One of the purposes of Beowulf is to teach the positive and negative moral characteristics of Anglo-Saxon culture. While announcing his mission to Hrothgar Beowulf says, “…I hereby renounce sword and shelter of the broad shield, the heavy war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be, a life-and-death fight with the fiend” (Heaney 31). Beowulf feels it would be unfair and not honorable for him to fight with weapons a creature that is unarmed. This shows the importance of honor in Anglo-Saxons societies. Hrothgar demonstrates another sought after characteristic as he says goodbye to Beowulf, “What you have done is to draw two peoples, the Great nation and us neighboring Danes, into shared peace and a pact of friendship in spite of hatreds we have

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