Sources for BeowulfMany characters, episodes and material artifacts poetically mentioned in Beowulf are also brought to us from archaeological sources, literary sources and English . and Scandinavian documents. "I suggested in a previous article that the poet Beowulf's prompting to compose an epic about the 6th-century Scyldings may have had something to do with the fact that, by the 890s at least, Heremod, Scyld, Healfdene and the others, were considered the common ancestors of both the Anglo-Saxon royal family and the ninth-century Danish immigrants, the Scaldingi” (Frank 60). Scyld, the ancestor of the Danish royal family, the Scioldungas, closely resembles Skioldr, ancestor of the Skioldungar, although the story of Beowulf itself does not appear in Scandinavian literature (Ward v1, ch3, s3, p10 ). Healfdene and his sons Hrothgar and Halga are also mentioned in Norse sources; they are identical to the Danish king Hafdan and his sons Hroarr and Helgi often mentioned in The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki. There is no doubt that Hrothulf, Hrothgar's nephew and colleague, is Helgi's son Hrolfr. And Hrothgar's son Heoroweard could be identical to Hiorvarr, Hrolf's brother-in-law in The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki. Hrethric, the son of Hrothgar, could be the same person as Hroereker, the successor of Ingialdr. Beowulf also uses historical sources. The Heathobard who Beowulf said might take revenge on Hrothgar could be Hothbroddus in the Danish History of Saxo who killed Hroarr (Roe). King Froda of Beowulf and his son Ingeld, future son-in-law of Hrothgar, correspond to King Frotho IV and his son Ingialdr, both kings of the Danes. In Beowulf, the...... middle of paper...... Clark, Gorge. “The hero and the theme.” In A Beowulf Handbook, edited by Robert Bjork and John D. Niles. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Cramp, Rosemary. “Beowulf and Archaeology.” In TheBeowulf Poet, edited by Donald K. Fry. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Frank, Roberta. “The Poet Beowulf’s Meaning of History.” In Beowulf – Modern Critical Interpretations, edited by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. The Holy Bible, prepared by the Catholic Bible Association of Great Britain. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1966. The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, translated by Jesse L. Byock. New York: Penguin Books, 1998. Ward & Trent, et al. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York: Sons of GP Putnam, 1907-1921; New York: Bartleby.com, 2000