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[herkyjerkydance]

Dear anonymous author of Beowulf,

Look, I know it was the 9th century and you were probably doing this under pain of death from your church fathers, but dude, your ancient Scandinavian characters definitely would not be invoking the Christian God. You and I both know they worshiped the Aesir, and after a while all the "Thank the Almighty for

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[richardfan]

plus everyone in beowulf has anglo-saxon, not scandinavian names. it is so far from "historically accurate" that the god thing is just an eensy weensy blip on the historical accuracy radar.