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Vortigern

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Vortigern (vôr`tĭgərn), 5th cent., tribal king of Britons in Wales and S England. Tradition transmitted by Bede says that Vortigern invited the Germanic leaders Hengist and Horsa Hengist and Horsa (hĕng`gĭst, hôr`sə)
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 to Kent to help withstand the Picts and Scots. Later he quarreled and fought with Hengist and Horsa.


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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.
By my faith, I could pardon the unhappy Vortigern, had he half the cause that we now witness, for making shipwreck of his honour and his kingdom.
 
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