He is a Christ-like figure that was symbolic and supposed to be a savior for the people of the geats, or you could imply that he could also be the savior for the writer’s culture. The appeal in this is that it is unhuman like and not a likely attitude for people to have. If you polled the whole world what their greatest fear was most of them would say death. Even though this statement shows Beowulf’s mortality in his death, it also shows how heroically his people believed he died. Most people want to be remembered forever and Beowulf has accomplished this in his death while slaying the dragon. Even though the manuscript is a thousand plus years old it still presents a good message to people. Beowulf sticks to his own standards and doesn’t give in to peer pressure This another one of the countless universal messages presented in Beowulf.
Historically the epic is very useful as a source of knowledge about a certain people. Not many writings from these people and this time period exist so Beowulf is the biggest source of knowledge on the Anglo-Saxons. It also is one of the largest preserved works on the Old English Language. The poem is historically significant because there is no other resource with more information on the Anglo-Saxons and the Old