BEOWULF'S LANDFALL IN "FINNA LAND"

In line 580 of Beowulf occurs the place name finna land, where young hero is washed up on shore at the end of his "swimming match" with Breca. This has always been thought to be a land at some distance from his own, so that the adventure is one of Beowulf's supernatural exploits. I argue here that this is not the case, that Beowulf and Breca do not come to shore at a supernatural distance apart or from where they started, and that the place name may even reveal where the poet has located the land of the Wedergeats.