Hengist and Horsa
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title:
Hengist and Horsa
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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
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Legendary brothers said to have led the invasion of Britain in the 5th century
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengist_and_Horsa
date created:
2002-02-25T15:43:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T22:55:49Z
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