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... 4 KB (427 words) - 21:17, 9 February 2024 |
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... 678 bytes (129 words) - 12:25, 4 December 2022 |
Franks Casket (section Hengist and Horsa?) Achilles, and perhaps even an allusion to the legendary founding of England by Hengist and Horsa. The inscriptions "display a deliberate linguistic and alphabetic... 52 KB (6,621 words) - 04:43, 22 February 2024 |
Historia Regum Britanniae (category Latin historical texts from Norman and Angevin England) 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... 26 KB (3,316 words) - 21:36, 29 April 2024 |
Jutes (section Mercian and South Saxon takeover) 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... 37 KB (4,546 words) - 16:22, 29 April 2024 |
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... 1 KB (177 words) - 02:24, 29 April 2022 |
translates to "the golden coloured one" Hamskerpir and Garðrofa, the parents of Hófvarpnir Hengist and Horsa, leaders of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain... 9 KB (852 words) - 21:00, 12 April 2024 |
Kingdom of Kent (category States and territories established in the 450s) Britons" known as Vortigern invited two Germanic leaders, Hengist and Horsa ("stallion" and "horse"), to Britain to help defend against Pictish raiders... 33 KB (4,222 words) - 00:31, 20 March 2024 |
Uther and his other brother, Aurelius Ambrosius, still children, flee to Brittany. Vortigern makes an alliance with the Saxons under Hengist, but it... 20 KB (2,536 words) - 23:55, 19 February 2024 |
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... 90 KB (11,064 words) - 17:51, 29 April 2024 |
Battle of Badon (section Nennius and the Welsh Annals) 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... 22 KB (2,808 words) - 19:12, 22 March 2024 |
returns to Britain and exiles Pelagian heretics. 449 (traditional date) Vortigern, supposed king of the Britons, invites Hengist and Horsa, by tradition chieftains... 4 KB (397 words) - 18:42, 4 January 2024 |
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... 7 KB (771 words) - 13:13, 24 June 2023 |
English mythology (section Notable figures and legends) Introduction". University of Rochester. 1997. Retrieved 11 March 2018. "Hengist and Horsa". English Monarchs. 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018. "King Horn: Introduction"... 13 KB (1,218 words) - 21:13, 9 March 2024 |
chieftains, Hengist and Horsa, who were believed to have led the first Saxon bands which settled England in the fifth century. "Hengist Nunatak". Geographic... 1 KB (166 words) - 20:14, 13 April 2023 |
was under attack from other tribes and called for assistance. Among those who came were the Jutes Hengist and Horsa; Vortigern is said to have rewarded... 23 KB (2,785 words) - 18:28, 20 March 2024 |
Excalibur (section Forms and etymology) Traditionally, the sword in the stone that is the proof of Arthur's lineage and the sword given him by a Lady of the Lake are not the same weapon, even as... 33 KB (3,923 words) - 07:13, 5 April 2024 |
government commemorating the 1500th anniversary of the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, leaders of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, at nearby Ebbsfleet. The ship... 2 KB (279 words) - 17:25, 30 January 2024 |
Divine twins (section In mythology and religion) (being founders and brothers), also paralleling Hengist and Horsa. Another founding pair of twins in Germanic tradition is brothers Dan and Angul (Angel)... 52 KB (6,225 words) - 16:12, 1 December 2023 |
Carry On Cleo (section Filming and locations) cavemen Horsa (Jim Dale) and Hengist Pod (Kenneth Connor) attempt to alert Boudica to the invasion, but are captured by the Romans. Once in Rome, Horsa is... 14 KB (1,231 words) - 08:55, 12 April 2024 |
Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies (category Medieval genealogies and succession lists) Britain, notably named as Hengist and Horsa in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and further to legendary kings and heroes of the pre-migration... 49 KB (5,492 words) - 13:23, 25 March 2024 |
invited the "Angle kin" (Angles allegedly led by the Germanic brothers Hengist and Horsa) to help repel invading Picts, in return for lands in the southeast... 63 KB (6,034 words) - 03:54, 10 April 2024 |