-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
- The
Slingsby Hengist was a
British military glider designed and
built by
Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd. Like
other British troop carrying gliders in the Second...
- 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...
-
relationship to the
other kings in his line; he may have been the son of
Hengist or Oisc, and may have been the
father of Oisc or Eormenric. The
dates of...
- 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...
- "king of the Britons"
known as
Vortigern invited two
Germanic leaders,
Hengist and
Horsa ("stallion" and "horse"), to
Britain to help
defend against Pictish...
- and
perhaps even an
allusion to the
legendary founding of
England by
Hengist and Horsa. The
inscriptions "display a
deliberate linguistic and alphabetic...
