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It would be even better if Time Team(Tidsresenärerna in Swedish or 'timetravellers') visited Uppåkra, which probably was old Lund, the main setting for the events in Beowulf! I have litterally sent messages to the whole staff at the BBC-serie Time team and some british newspapers.
A central place might have been found in the province of Skane, Sweden, in a place that used to belong to Denmark. In a landscape, or region called Skadiney in the 500 c, by the anglosaxons called Scedenige(in Beowulf) by laws of mutation. In the same way the danes and the anglians were called denes and engles. The anglo-saxons(Alfred the Great, 900c)called Skáney or Skane, as it is called nowadays, for Scóneg, also with a (soft?)g in the ending. The nordic ey probably was received by the anglo-saxons a soft g. Also Scedeland has a parallel as Skåne, Halland and Bornholm used to be called Skåneland. Nowadays it normally means just Skåne or Scania as it is called in Latin.
There are many connections to Beowulf. In the neigborhood to the nearby sacrificing-bog Gullakra there were tales about a hideous woman entity sometimes seen with a male compagnon. She was beheaded for the deeds she committed and was berried where three parishes meet. At Uppåkra has also been found 40 bent spearheads(500c) from north Germany. Similar ones have been described in Widsith after a fight with Ingeld. Please look at:
The cup is right after the middle of the page. A similar cup that is carried around and never put down is described in Beowulf, carried by queen Waltheow:
I suspect that this could be the cult and festivity-house Heorot. What was unusual about this house was not it´s length, but it´s height. It was probably at least 12 m high, a scyscraper for that time..The name Heorot could have something to do with Uppåkras background as sun-worshipping place. A sun-deer is portrayed in the old-norse verses of Sólarljód.
Most legends are not simply made up, they build on something.
Yours sincerely,
Hakan Liljeberg
Lund, Sweden
PS Maybe I shouldn´t mention that the necklace(dated to 600c.) called Brosingamene in B and Brisingamen in the Edda, has been found in Möne, Götaland/Geatland already in the 1860:ies, but since historical research has been politically directed towards Stockholm/Uppsala and the Mälarvalley since the 16th c, all the finds from other areas are treated with 3:rd degree interest. Help us give this international attention. Heorot has been found, but nobody seems to care, or dares to care..(Just google on Möne, collar, necklace etc.) DS