What does the following quotation suggest as an alternative motive for the story of Beowulf? “Hail/ To those who will rise to God, drop off/ Their dead bodies and seek our Father’s peace!”

A translation for this would be that the people whose fear consumes them to the point that they lose faith that, after death, their souls will not be granted eternal peace by the Father, God. I thin A (a. It warns against the possible damnation of the soul) would be your answer.