 According to R. Rainbird Clarke , migrants from southern Jutland " speedily dominated " the <unk> , an area of southeast Suffolk , and then , by around 550 , " lost no time in conquering the whole of East Anglia " . Rainbird Clarke identified Wehha , the founder of the dynasty , as one of the leaders of the new arrivals : the East Angles are tentatively identified with the Geats of the Old English poem Beowulf . He used the evidence of the finds at Sutton Hoo to conclude that the Wuffingas originated from Sweden , noting that the sword , helmet and shield found in the ship burial at Sutton Hoo may have been family heirlooms , brought across from Sweden in the beginning of the 6th century . As it is now believed that these artefacts were made in England , there is less agreement amongst scholars that the Wuffingas dynasty was directly linked with Sweden . 
