Beowulf - in Kent?

Evelyn Paul (1911), Beowulf challenged by the coastguard. Published in Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages. Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beowulf_challenged_by_the_coastguard_by_E_Paul.jpg

Our discussion last week drifted onto the great Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf, and Charlotte has sent a link through to the British Archaeology article that suggests that Beowulf was set in Kent near present day Faversham. See http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba39/ba39feat.html

For an excellent translation of Beowulf see the Seamus Heaney (1999) edition.

Bibliography

Heaney, S. (1999) Beowulf. Translated Seamus Heaney. London:Faber & Faber

Wilkinson P. (1998) Finding Beowulf in Kent's landscape. British Journal of Archaeology, 39. http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba39/ba39feat.html (Accessed March 6, 2011)