What ideas about anglo-saxon life and religious attitudes do you get from the poems

Both contain references to Christianity. Old English Saxons passed on their stories and verse through oral custom. While initially Pagan, the Anglo-Saxons started to acknowledge and rehearse Christianity and this change was reflected in the primarily composed writings. 
Concerning the Christian states of mind found in the requiems/regrets, both represent the issues one countenance when God is disregarded. The two speakers tell perusers of lives that have passed on- - passing of companions, family, and lords.

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