Shild's funeral is another example of paganism. Since people placed him on the deck of his ship and, "decked his body no less bountifully with offerings than those first ones did ?" (43-6). Lastly, when trying to appease Grendel, the geats attempt to offer gold or land, "Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed offerings to idols, swore oaths that the killer of souls might come to their aid and save the people", but their attempts fail...
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Thus they go back to and sacrifice to the stone idols the pagan past. The remnants of Christianity are also very visible in the epic. For example, Grendel has a deep hatred for the geats merely because the din of the hall always sings about creation, as "it harrowed him / to hear the din of he loud banquet/ every day in the hall, the harp being struck/ and the clear song of a skilled poet telling with the mastery of mans beginnings?" (86-92)...
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