The connection on page 40, “life in 999: a grim struggle,” describes daily life in late anglo-saxon england. how does life in 999 compare with life today?

The article "Life in 999: A Grim Struggle" indicates life as it was amid the Anglo-Saxon period. The article, from Time magazine, portrays the setting of the terrains as a "gathering of untamed backwoods, endless supply of trees and brush and brier, dim and unwelcoming." Readers of Beowulf can perceive how this grabs on the setting of the epic story. The setting of the Anglo-Saxon was huge.