RELIGION
CHRISTIANITY
PAGANISM?
CAIN
FIRST MURDERER
NAHASH
DESCENDANTS
On kin of Cain was the killing avengedby sovran God for slaughtered Abel.Ill fared his feud, and far was he driven,for the slaughter's sake, from sight of men.Of Cain awoke all that woful breed,Ettins and elves and evil-spirits,as well as the giants that warred with Godweary while: but their wage was paid them!
GRENDEL
EXILIATION AND SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH
FATE
(It was his fate that he eat no more of the race of men after that night. . .)
( the Fates) Greek & Roman Mythology the three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of  humans
THE WILL OF GOD 
OVERUSED
Either the God is bipolar or the  Danes use him as a scapegoat too much.
THANKS
NO, THANKS
Came then from the moor under the misty hills Grendel stalking under the weight of God's anger.
Hrothgar was broken;council after council proposedwhat to do against the attacks.
They even went to heathen temples,worshipped idols, and calledto the Devil for help.
The Danes forgot God.(Woe be to those who go to the fire's embrace,even in great distress--
There is no consolation there.)
Demons and evil spirits. Now a warrior, through God's might,has performed a deed we, in our wisdom, could not contrive.The woman who bore you, Beowulf, if she yet lives, may say the Eternal Maker was kind in her child bearing.
The Prologue mentions God about seven times. 
 Chapter 10 and 11 mention God once....... 
Enthusiasm gone weaker?
Still, God grantedvictory to himthat he alone avenged
himself with swordwhen he needed help.I could do
 little in battle,though I undertook it
CREATION