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PAGANISM VS CHRISTIANITY• RELIGION• VIEW OF LIFE IS FATALISTIC; YOU HAVE A FATE AND IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN• GODS (BASED ON GERMANIC GODS)• WYRD – FATE, EVERYONE, EVEN THE GODS HAD A FIXED, AND UNAVOIDABLE FATE.• 597 CE – GREGORIAN MISSION• A CLASH OF RELIGIONS• MOST OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND TOCHRISTIANITY BY 650.
CULTURAL ARTIFACTS AND SUTTON HOO• SUTTON HOO – 7 TH CENTURY BURIAL MOUNDS• THE SHIP-BURIAL DISCOVERED UNDER MOUND 1 IN 1939CONTAINED ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT ARCHAEOLOGICALFINDS IN ENGLAND FOR ITS SIZE AND COMPLETENESS.• FROM SUTTON HOO WE LEARNED• BURIAL PRACTICES• BELIEF IN AN AFTERLIFE• MIXING OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS• AS WE READ BEOWULF, TWO FUNERALS ARE DESCRIBED FOR US.CONSIDER THE SIMILARITES OF SUTTON HOO TO THEBURIALS IN THE POEM. HOW ARE THESE IMPORTANT TO THEINTERMINGLING OF CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN TRADITIONS?
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