How did monsters fit into the Anglo-Saxon worldview?

Anglo-Saxon mythology had no shortage of supernatural beings and monsters which were believed to
make up part of the natural world. The Anglo-Saxons were pre-Christian, and practiced Pagan
religion similar to the Scandinavian tradition. Based on surviving texts which describe
Anglo-Saxon religion, supernatural beings and phenomena were believed to be a very real part of
the world humans live in and experience. Some of these elements of mythology...

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