'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

Beowulf is your example. I never mentioned it. It’s also not a ghost story. You don’t seem to regard it as a "fantasy" (by which I assume you think that most of the audience took it literally- which I’m not so sure about, not by the time it was written down by Christianized Saxons).

Actually I don't think they bothered asking whether they took it literally or not. Pagan or Christian, they would have been more interested in having a good tale to go with their mead. But I do think they would if asked the question, have thought that swamp-monsters were literally possible up north with those strange folk in Denmark even if their weren't any in the places where sensible folk live.