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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Antiquities from 1605 by Richard Verstegan. The book shows an engraving of Hengist and Horsa landing in Kent in 449 under the banner of a rampant white horse....

government commemorating the 1500th anniversary of the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, leaders of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, at nearby Ebbsfleet. The ship...

(being founders and brothers), also paralleling Hengist and Horsa. Another founding pair of twins in Germanic tradition is brothers Dan and Angul (Angel)...

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...

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...

led by Hengist and Horsa), to help him against the Picts. In return, the Angles were granted lands in the South-East. Further aid was sought, and in response...

the Battle of Kaerconan ensured the defeat of Hengist. In Wace's Roman de Brut, when Hengist's son Octa and his cousin Ossa rebel, Gorlois helps Uther defeat...

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...