Beowulfwas manufactured by Christian Anglo Saxons who had mostly converted from their pagan religion however its complexity reveals evidence of both paganism and Christianity The plot is an allegorical story of salvation containing supernatural and historical elements traces of teaching in Christianity In the poem Beowulf a hero of the Geats battles three antagonists Grendel Gredels mother and later in his life a dragon all of them symbols of the Pagan folk The poem begins with the genealogy of