"The first of these Christian elements [in _Bēowulf_] is the
sense of a fairer, softer world than that in which the
Northern
warriors
lived.
Beowulf
Cf. l. 3021; and
_Judith_, l. 350; _Wanderer_, l. 79, etc.
ll. 90-99. There is a suspicious similarity between this passage and the
lines attributed by Bede to Cǣdmon:
Nū wē sculan herian heofonrices Weard, etc. --Sw., p. 47.
ll. 90-98 are probably the interpolation of a Christian scribe.
ll. 92-97.
"The first of these Christian elements [in _Bēowulf_] is the
sense of a fairer, softer world than that in which the
Northern
warriors
lived.
... Another Christian passage (ll. 107, 1262) derives all the demons,
eotens, elves, and dreadful sea-beasts from the race of Cain. The folly of
sacrificing to the heathen gods is spoken of (l. 175).... The other point
is the belief in immortality (ll. 1202, 1761)."--Br. 71.
