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Hengist and Horsa

Hengist and Horsa are Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their supposed invasion of Britain in the 5th century. Tradition[clarification...

Last Update: 2024-01-20T14:34:18Z Word Count : 5389 Synonim Hengist and Horsa

Battle of Aylesford

Both sources concur that it involved the Anglo-Saxon leaders Hengist and Horsa on one side and the family of Vortigern on the other, but neither says who...

Last Update: 2024-02-09T21:17:32Z Word Count : 427 Synonim Battle of Aylesford

Hengist (disambiguation)

Hengist is an Anglo-Saxon leader in British legend. Hengist may also refer to: Hengist, King of Kent, a 17th-century play about the Saxon king by Thomas...

Last Update: 2022-12-04T12:25:18Z Word Count : 129 Synonim Hengist (disambiguation)

Airspeed Horsa

The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a British troop-carrying glider used during the Second World War. It was developed and manufactured by Airspeed Limited, alongside...

Last Update: 2024-03-25T19:31:28Z Word Count : 4397 Synonim Airspeed Horsa

Franks Casket

Achilles, and perhaps even an allusion to the legendary founding of England by Hengist and Horsa. The inscriptions "display a deliberate linguistic and alphabetic...

Last Update: 2024-02-22T04:43:13Z Word Count : 6621 Synonim Franks Casket

Vortigern

contested by scholars and information about him is obscure. He may have been the "superbus tyrannus" said to have invited Hengist and Horsa to aid him in fighting...

Last Update: 2024-01-19T21:03:34Z Word Count : 2944 Synonim Vortigern

Historia Regum Britanniae

the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him. He loses control of much of his land and encounters Merlin...

Last Update: 2024-03-18T23:47:42Z Word Count : 3313 Synonim Historia Regum Britanniae

Jutes

landed at Wippidsfleet (Ebbsfleet), and went on to defeat the Picts wherever they fought them. Hengist and Horsa sent word home to Germany asking for...

Last Update: 2024-03-06T02:09:57Z Word Count : 4546 Synonim Jutes

Kingdom of Kent

Britons" known as Vortigern invited two Germanic leaders, Hengist and Horsa ("stallion" and "horse"), to Britain to help defend against Pictish raiders...

Last Update: 2024-03-20T00:31:38Z Word Count : 4222 Synonim Kingdom of Kent

Horsa Nunataks

isolated Hengist Nunatak to the south are for the brother chieftains, Hengist and Horsa, who were believed to have led the first Saxon bands which settled...

Last Update: 2022-04-29T02:24:31Z Word Count : 177 Synonim Horsa Nunataks

List of horses in mythology and folklore

translates to "the golden coloured one" Hamskerpir and Garðrofa, the parents of Hófvarpnir Hengist and Horsa, leaders of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain...

Last Update: 2024-02-17T14:51:23Z Word Count : 852 Synonim List of horses in mythology and folklore

Uther Pendragon

Uther and his other brother, Aurelius Ambrosius, still children, flee to Brittany. Vortigern makes an alliance with the Saxons under Hengist, but it...

Last Update: 2024-02-19T23:55:22Z Word Count : 2536 Synonim Uther Pendragon

Cliffsend

End) and civil parish situated almost 2 miles (3 km) west of Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom, in the Thanet local government district. Hengist and Horsa landed...

Last Update: 2023-12-11T05:57:34Z Word Count : 784 Synonim Cliffsend

Ebbsfleet, Thanet

nearest to the Continent, and consequently, Ebbsfleet is associated with two important arrivals in English history: Hengist and Horsa in 449 AD, said to have...

Last Update: 2023-06-24T13:13:46Z Word Count : 771 Synonim Ebbsfleet, Thanet

5th century in England

returns to Britain and exiles Pelagian heretics. 449 (traditional date) Vortigern, supposed king of the Britons, invites Hengist and Horsa, by tradition chieftains...

Last Update: 2024-01-04T18:42:45Z Word Count : 397 Synonim 5th century in England

English mythology

Introduction". University of Rochester. 1997. Retrieved 11 March 2018. "Hengist and Horsa". English Monarchs. 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018. "King Horn: Introduction"...

Last Update: 2024-03-09T21:13:30Z Word Count : 1218 Synonim English mythology

King Arthur

distant past. They cite parallels with figures such as the Kentish Hengist and Horsa, who may be totemic horse-gods that later became historicised. Bede...

Last Update: 2024-02-10T13:40:45Z Word Count : 10971 Synonim King Arthur

Battle of Badon

Virgin both on his shield and shoulder. Arthur charges and kills 470, ten more than the number of Britons ambushed by Hengist near Salisbury. Elements...

Last Update: 2024-03-22T19:12:58Z Word Count : 2808 Synonim Battle of Badon

Hengist Nunatak

chieftains, Hengist and Horsa, who were believed to have led the first Saxon bands which settled England in the fifth century. "Hengist Nunatak". Geographic...

Last Update: 2023-04-13T20:14:12Z Word Count : 166 Synonim Hengist Nunatak

Romulus and Remus

origin of the Turks Castor and Pollux The Golden Bough, a tale concerning Aeneas and Rome Greco-Roman world Hengist and Horsa, legendary brothers from the...

Last Update: 2024-03-23T11:46:45Z Word Count : 3658 Synonim Romulus and Remus

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Hengist and Horsa

Hengist and Horsa are Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their supposed invasion of Britain in the 5th century. Tradition lists Hengist as the first of the Jutish kings of Kent. Modern scholarly consensus regards Hengist and Horsa as mythical figures, given their alliterative animal names, the seemingly constructed nature of their genealogy, and the unknowable quality of Bede's sources. Their later detailed representation in texts such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says more about ninth-century attitudes to the past than about the time in which they are said to have existed.According to early sources, Hengist and Horsa arrived in Britain at Ebbsfleet on the Isle of Thanet. For a time, they served as mercenaries for Vortigern, King of the Britons, but later they turned against him (British accounts have them betraying him in the Treachery of the Long Knives). Horsa was killed fighting the Britons, but Hengist successfully conquered Kent, becoming the forefather of its kings. A figure named Hengest, possibly identifiable with the leader of British legend, appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and in Beowulf. J. R. R. Tolkien has theorized that this indicates Hengest/Hengist is the same person and originates as a historical person.Hengist was historically said to have been buried at Hengistbury Head in Dorset.


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