Hengist | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-07-10

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengist_and_Horsa


00:01:20 1 Etymology
00:02:35 2 Attestations
00:02:44 2.1 iEcclesiastical History of the English People/i
00:03:25 2.2 iAnglo-Saxon Chronicle/i
00:05:54 2.3 iHistory of the Britons/i
00:11:08 2.4 iHistory of the Kings of Britain/i
00:11:33 2.4.1 Book 6
00:18:59 2.4.2 Book 8
00:23:05 2.5 iProse Edda/i
00:23:41 3 Horse-head gables
00:24:24 4 Theories
00:24:33 4.1 iFinnsburg Fragment/i and iBeowulf/i
00:25:43 4.2 Germanic twin brothers and divine Indo-European horse twins
00:28:27 4.3 Uffington White Horse
00:29:25 4.4 Aschanes
00:29:54 5 Modern influence
00:32:03 6 See also



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Hengist and Horsa are legendary brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century. Tradition lists Hengist as the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.
According to early sources, Hengist and Horsa arrived in Britain at Ebbsfleet on the Isle of Thanet. For a time, they served as mercenaries for Vortigern, King of the Britons, but later they turned against him (British accounts have them betraying him in the Treachery
of the Long Knives). Horsa was killed fighting the Britons, but Hengist successfully conquered Kent, becoming the forefather of its kings.
A figure named Hengest, who may be identifiable with the leader of British legend, appears in the Finnsburg Fragment and in Beowulf. 
Legends of horse-associated founding brothers are attested among other Germanic peoples and appear in other Indo-European cultures. As a result, scholars have theorized a pan-Germanic mythological origin for Hengist and Horsa, stemming originally from divine twins found in Proto-Indo-European religion. Other scholars, including J. R. R. Tolkien, have argued for a historical basis for Hengist and Horsa.