What are the signs of Anglo-Saxon culture in the two extracts?
The two extracts give information about Anglo-Saxon values, like courage, loyalty and strength. The first two can be found in the first extract, when Beowulf’s warriors try to defend their lord (l. 25-28) while the third can be found in the same extract in Grendel’s presentation, in fact, even though he’s the enemy, he has got qualities that Beowulf has to outdo to be an hero.
The first one tells about their dwellings, “a sheer keep of fortified gold” is Hrothgard’s dwelling at line 8.
The other one tells about their funeral rites, in fact the second extract is dedicated entirely to Beowulf’s funeral. The Geats build a pyre in which they burn the hero’s “bone house”; then they build a mound in a headland, in which they house, behind a wall, what remained from the fire and a treasure. At the end twelve warriors ride around the tomb chanting dirges. Everything is made while people are wailing the loss of their lord, in particular a woman sings about the ruin that Beowulf’s death will bring to her people.
They both tell about Anglo-Saxon weapons, in fact in the first extract the warriors fight Grendel “with their ancestral blades” (l. 28), while Beowulf’s pyre is hung with “helmets, heavy war-shields and shining armor” (l. 3-4). The second extract also tells about Anglo-Saxon importance to memory, in fact the Geats build a memorial to remember their king, that even sailors could see. The last element makes you think that the Anglo-Saxons were sailors, too, and the fact that they put in the pire a treasure and weapons makes you think that that were expert blacksmiths.

Describe the stylistic choices the narrator made in the two sections.
In the two sections, the most frequent devices the narrator uses are alliterations and kennings. For example, in the first part of the first section the alliteration of the -s sound creates a sense of silence and fear, which is connected to Grendel’s characterization. While an example of the use of kenning can be found in the second section; when in the eleventh line the narrator says “bone-house” instead of body. Both are characterized by a lack of conjunctions, which speed up the rhythm of the narration, especially during the fight with Grendel, in which this device makes it easier to the listener to imagine the scene.

What are the features of Beowulf that have allowed the survival of the poem?
The survival of the poem was granted by devices like kennings and alliterations, which made its oral transmission easier and more pleasant. This allowed the survival of the poem, which was helped by putting it into writing.