Beowulf's helmet in the poem is described as ... cosmopolitan nature of southern England in the early Middle Ages. The ship burial's style is Scandinavian, and within the ship, excavators found ...

and Mr Crossley-Holland is among those who believe Beowulf might have been written in the area. The town is close to the world famous Anglo-Saxon burial site of Sutton Hoo, where a ship filled ...

The largest Anglo-Saxon ship burial ever discovered contained ... its similarity to that depicted in the Old English epic poem, Beowulf. The eponymous hero of this work is a Geat from modern ...