User blog comment:Songflower/Essay: Could the Redwall Books have really happened?/@comment-1209332-20090731015807

The creatures are all from England, so Salmandastron could not be on the Mediterranean coast because A) The Mediterranean coast is south not west and B) The Mediterranean coast is not reachable by land from England. You would have to swim the English channel, which has only been some by some very fit humans, and could not have been done by an animal.