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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...
- 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...
- The Slingsby Hengist was a British military glider designed and built by Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. Like other British troop carrying gliders in the Second...
- descendants of Oisc of Kent, not of Hengist. In effect, none of them was likely a literal son of Hengist and their relation to Hengist may have been a later invention...
- No.72010 Hengist is a steam locomotive which is under construction as a "new-build" project. The design is based on the mixed traffic BR Standard 6 Clan...
- Hesperides, but was soon renamed after Hengist, brother of Horsa and legendary conqueror of Britain. Hengist first flew on 8 December 1931. It was later...
- firm Marcus et Spencius, and Hengist is destined to be thrown to the lions when no-one agrees to buy him. Horsa and Hengist escape and take refuge in the...
- "king of the Britons" known as Vortigern invited two Germanic leaders, Hengist and Horsa ("stallion" and "horse"), to Britain to help defend against Pictish...
- Hengist Nunatak (69°0′S 70°14′W / 69.000°S 70.233°W / -69.000; -70.233) is an isolated flat-topped nunatak, more than 610 metres (2,000 ft) in height...
- and perhaps even an allusion to the legendary founding of England by Hengist and Horsa. The inscriptions "display a deliberate linguistic and alphabetic...