The minstrels of King Hrothgar’s court sing of “He who could tell of men’s beginning from olden time, spoke of how the Almighty wrought the world. . .” alluding to GENESIS 1 : 1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” and JOHN 1 : 1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”