The truth of a past culture can never be known as established and unchangeable. Therefore, the Anglo-Saxon culture people know may not even be an accurate representation of the actual culture. With this in mind, how can Beowulf represent a culture if the culture itself is not established. Nothing can change the fact that the history of the Anglo-Saxons will never be known except from assumption of the artifacts people have found and interpreted. Even a historian interpreting an artifact or writing is bias for it is what that historian thinks or believes the artifact tells or shows. The thoughts, views, and opinions of the interpreters of the artifacts are very flawed and subjective. People are taught that everything in a history textbook or anything told by a historian is real, but that is not the