So in all depictions of the beowulf story I've seen there

>>3106139
Oringanlly it was a pre-chistian oral poem, but it was later written in english by chritstian monks who made some changes to make it more palatable to christians.

>>3106155
So in the official story there wouldn't be any christians?
But even then would the scandinavians of late antiquity/ early early middle ages know about christianity or would they first find it during the viking age?

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>>3106139
Christ in Scandinavia was probably seen as an additional god among the other's in their pantheon.

>>3106361
I thought only the romans were liberal with religion like that.

>>3106139
God = Woden

>>3106375
I don't think so they say the name odin next to god as a seperate thing.

>>3106361
Early Norsemen saw Jesus as a cuck God. So later Christians presented Jesus as a divine warrior who enters hell to battle with demons & rescue the souls of the righteous damned. They also pushed the angle of Jesus as "great king who dies without fear for the sake of his followers". Vikings liked this version better and embraced him as a God of War.

>>3106139
I'm Scandinavian and no there were no real Christians, never was. Not even in Medieval times, the King simply made it law to go to Church to manipulate people into going to war. Norse mythology is rooted in every single thing in Scandinavia, churches are empty with spiderwebs since nobody is stupid enough to believe in that crap, they're just used for funerals etc.

So basically there were never any real Christians here in all of our history.

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>>3106495
or maybe it was because the vikings lost the wars against christian armies

>>3106518
Fake news