In a personal communication, Professor Robinson expressed some doubt about this classification. These brief remarks, however, cannot do justice to Professor Robinson's essay. Another instance is Robinson's insistence that the scop's song of creation could be pagan, p.34, in the face of very similar passages which are unquestionably Christian. The monotheistic, anthropomorphic Creator, in spite of scattered hints toward monotheism in the pagan tradition of the North, has a decided Christian ring to it.
Books aimed at teaching, of course, tend to canonize convention.
More About the Fight with the Dragon , p. 3. C. L. Wrenn, 3rd ed. Klaeber, ed., Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg , 3rd ed., with 1st and 2nd suppls.