Christ, Thor and the Midgard Serpent, para. 2

2. With regard to the question of whether similarities to German myths with Christian ideas are attributed to Christian influence or not, is another, no less interesting and significant, much less respected, question, namely, whether such correspondence in the conversion of the Germans to Christianity became effective and in which way. [Footnote 2] Should the missionaries and preachers of the 1. Christian Era be completely avoided, to establish comparable German ideas, to dress Christian truths in familiar religious images? Or are they seen exclusively in the pagan gods, the Devil, monsters and demons, as the sources confirm again and again?