Closest Airport to Leavenworth, KS. The closest airport is Kansas City International Airport (MCI). Distance from Kansas City International Airport to Leavenworth is 18,0 kilometers (11,2 miles).ansas City International Airport is located approximately 17,2 kilometers (10,7 miles) northwest of Gladstone and about 18,0 kilometers (11,2 miles) east of Leavenworth.
Author Neil Gaiman and screenwriter Roger Avary wrote a screen adaptation of Beowulf in May 1997 (they had met while working on a film adaptation of Gaiman's The Sandman in 1996, before Warner Bros. canceled it).
Their identity was strong - as an example when Norwegians went to war against their neighbours they fought against the Geats / Gauts, not the Swedes / Svenskarna. While Beowulf is considered to be a fictional character, King Hygelac is known to be historical, he was killed in a battle in Frisian land around the year 516 AD.