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Originally Posted by N3LYT
Kent England "World's end" I didn't go to the end of that one.
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Are you thinking of
Land's End? There are at least two in Britain (one in Kent and one in Wales). Many scholars believe -- so do I -- that the marshes around Land's End in Kent were the setting for the chapters in the epic of
Beowulf (just about the earliest scrap of written English we have, 700 AD or so) in which the hero Beowulf kills the monster Grendel's mother, after killing Grendel himself (herself?) in the great hall of Heorot, which (according to these scholars) was on the Kentish island whose modern name is Harty.
Other scholars think
Beowulf is set in Norway or Denmark. Pooh.