What are two Christian influences or references in the Old English epic poem Beowulf?

Christian references and influences pervade the Old
English epic poem Beowulf, perhaps in part because the poem was
probably transcribed by an early English Christian monk.  In any case, the poem is full
of Christian ideas and imagery, as in some of the following examples (taken from the
Seamus Heaney translation):

• In lines 12-17, God
  is credited with assisting the Danish nation by giving them yet another good king. This
  very early reference to God makes the important point that everything good comes from
  God and that all people (and all peoples) depend on God’s favor and
  mercy.


• Hrothgar, the latest in a long line of good Danish
  kings, is praised for dispensing “his God-given gifts to young and old” among his people
  (72).


• After Hrothgar has built and occupied his glorious
  hall, he and his people sit and listen as a poet celebrates God’s creation of the earth;
  they listen to

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. . . the clear song of a skilled
poet

telling with mastery of man’s
beginnings,

how the Almighty had made the
earth

a gleaming plain gilded with waters . . . .
(90-93)

• Grendel,
  the evil and destructive monster who now begins to torment the Danes, is explicitly
  associated with

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Cain’s clan, whom the Creator had
outlawed

and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of
Abel

the Eternal Lord had exacted a price . . . .
(106-08)

• References
  to God recur repeatedly during the opening sections of the poem, as when “the Almighty”
  is said to have made Cain “anathema” (110); and when the poet mentions “giants . . . who
  strove with God” (113); and when Grendel is called “God-cursed” (121); and especially
  when some of the Danes are condemned for religious back-sliding when they worship Satan
  as a way of coping with the threat posed by Grendel (175-86). In response, the poet
  offers an emphatic declaration of Christian
  belief:

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. . . blessed is
he

who after death can approach the
Lord

and find friendship in the Father’s embrace.
(186-88)

It would be easy to
offer an extremely long list of such references to the Christian god as they appear
throughout Beowulf and as they profoundly color the tone and
meaning of the poem.