id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zk51vd69h4j Melissa Ann Mayus Accepting Fate and Accepting Grace: Conceptions of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon Poetry 1904 .txt text/plain 260 9 41 Yet rather than just borrow ideas about free will, fate, providence, and grace from both Germanic sources and Christian sources, Old English poetry weaves all of these ideas together so thoroughly that at times they stop being distinguishable and become something new. It also shows that free will was prominent among the theological and philosophical issues investigated in Anglo-Saxon poems from a number of different manuscripts. cache/zk51vd69h4j.txt txt/zk51vd69h4j.txt