Why has religion always been such a complicated topic? Why can't it be as simple as praying to God for good health? Religion has been the source of many problems for thousands of years, including the period in which two of the most famous works were written. The conversion of paganism to Christianity was a broad issue presented during this period. In this article, the dictionary similarities of the authors' purposes of Dream of the Rood and Beowulf will be compared and discussed. Both authors present their goals by using the characteristics of the Norse mythological gods, to describe the heroes in both poems to guide their readers, the Anglo-Saxons, to convert to Christianity. There is a lot of historical context involved in this topic which describes the struggles in Britain to convert people to Christianity. The Anglo-Saxons who arrived in Britain were originally pagans and consisted of their worshiping the gods of nature, trees and rocks. They prayed to these gods for materialistic things such as a good harvest or to win an upcoming battle. The natives were Christians and given the speed with which this conversion occurred it is understandable that Pope Gregory wanted to eliminate all paganism. It was a long process that took many years to actually complete. The process began in 597 when Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine on this mission which was a hard and rapid conversion to Christian ideas. Pagan churches were stripped of the gods they worshiped and transformed into places where Christianity could be worshiped. The entire conversion did not begin with the people, but first with the king himself, which is why the changes trickled down to the pagan faithful. After the last pagan relative... in the center of the card... a new god in a simpler way. The author of Beowulf presents the same goal of Christianizing pagans through his character descriptions. The two main societies presented in Beowulf are the Danes and the Geats and they are supposed to completely represent Christianity and just that, however; paganism was purposely insinuated into the epic poem by the author. Having to suffer under Grendel's constant attacks, the Danes "turned to their pagan gods for help" and "in pagan shrines they made offerings to idols, they swore that the murderer of souls would come to their aid" which are all things that Pagans would do (175-177). Since the author has Christian rulers but has them do what pagans would do in this same situation, his goal is presented. This is exactly what pagans do, they worship Gods and ask them for materialistic things like winning wars and battles.