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Hengist and Horsa (hĕng`gĭst, hôr`sə), names of two brothers who, according to tradition, led the Jutish invasion of Britain and founded the kingdom of Kent Kent, kingdom of, one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. It was settled in the mid-5th cent. by aggressive bands of people called Jutes (see Anglo-Saxons ). ..... Click the link for more information. . Hengist would more properly be written Hengest. They are said to have been invited by Vortigern Vortigern (vôr`tĭgərn), 5th cent., tribal king of Britons in Wales and S England. ..... Click the link for more information. in 449 to help the Britons defend themselves against the Picts and Scots to the north, to have settled in Kent, and to have fought a battle with Vortigern, in which Horsa was killed (c.455). The names may all be mythical, but historians generally agree that in the 5th cent. a Jutish chief and his retinue did arrive in Kent, did serve a British king, and did revolt, and that various battles prepared the way for the later settlement of Kent by the Jutes. |
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It supplies the names of the earliest Saxon leaders, Hengist and Horsa (who also figure in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'), and narrates at length their treacherous dealings with Vortigern. |
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