Beowulf believes that the winner of this fight will be decided by god, if he is destined to die then so be it. He is not afraid to die because he believes that if he dies in this fight that was the time that God had chosen for him to pass. Although he is completely aware of his abilities, and his "awesomeness" Beowulf seems like a character who leaves it all up to fate. He fights every battle knowing that he will win depending on what fate has in store for him. The Poem Beowulf is written by a christian but the society itself as described is not, but the poem continuously aludes to the bible, and Beowulf himself seems as if he is a christian character, as if he believes in god, based on the trust that he puts on the "creator".
Fate here seems pagan. Beowulf approaches the fight like a warrior must approach an enemy because he doesn't know whether or not fate has chosen him to die or not. This belongs to the notion of wryd.
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