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	Hengest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both Hengest and Horsa are described as being Jutes, and sons of a Jutish chief named Wihtgils.
		Hengest is also a character in the Fight at Finnsburg narrative mentioned in the Finnsburg Fragment and the Beowulf poem.
		In these texts, Hengest is a Danish warrior who takes control of the Danish forces after the prince Hnæf is killed, and succeeds in killing the Frisian lord Finn in revenge for his lord's death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hengest (389 words)

	Finn and Hengest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finn and Hengest is a study by J.R.R Tolkien, published posthumously in book form in 1982.
		Finn and Hengest are two Anglo-Saxon heroes appearing in the Old English epic poem Beowulf and in the fragment of The fight at Finnsburg.
		Hengest and Horsa (the names meaning "stallion" and "horse") were also two brothers, leaders (possibly mythical) of the first Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Britain as mercenaries in the 5th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finn_and_Hengest (103 words)

	Hengest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hengest or Hengist (?-488) was ruler of Kent, England.
		The facts of his life are unknown, but according to Bede (writing nearly 200 years after the events in question), he and his brother Horsa were mercenaries for Vortigern, hired to fight against the Picts.
		It is perhaps more likely that Hengest, meaning 'Stallion', was an honorific for an actual warlord, while Horsa was a later accretion to the story, perhaps as a misreading of a gloss in a manuscript that was written to define the name Hengest as meaning 'horse'.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/he/hengest.html (201 words)

	Hengest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Both Hengest and Horsa are described as Jutes and sons of a Jutish chief Wihtgils.
		Hengest is the subject of the 1620 Hengist King of Kent or The Mayor Queenborough by Thomas Middleton.
		In these texts Hengest is Danish warrior who takes control of the forces after the prince Hnæf is killed succeeds in killing the Frisian lord Finn in revenge for his lord's death.
	www.freeglossary.com /Hengest (645 words)

	Hengest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The facts of his life are unknown, but according to Bede (writing nearly 200 years afterthe events in question), he and his brother Horsa were mercenaries for the British ruler Vortigern, hired to fightagainst the Picts.
		Following his victories over the Picts, Hengest invited moreimmigrants from Germany to settle in Britain and then rebelled against Vortigern, establishing himself as king in Kent.
		In these texts, Hengest is a Danish warrior who takescontrol of the Danish forces after the prince Hnæf is killed, and succeeds in killing the Frisian lord Finn in revenge for his lord'sdeath.
	www.therfcc.org /hengest-43104.html (339 words)

	King Hengest of Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is suggested that Hengest emained at his base and despatched his son oisc in charge of a contingent to fight the Picts, whilst his cousin (or nephew), Ebissa, took the fleet to battle the Irish.
		It is tempting to connect this Hengest with the Hengest the Half-Dane referred to the epic poem Beowulf.
		Another legend states that Vortigern became infatuated with Hengest's daughter, Hrothwine (or Ronwen), and Hengest was prepared to give her in marriage to Vortigern in exchange for land.
	xpda.com /family/ind01298.htm (652 words)

	HENGEST and HORSA - LoveToKnow Article on HENGEST and HORSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hengest and Horsa were at first given the island of Thanet as a home, but soon quarrelled with their British allies, and gradually possessed themselves of what became the kingdom of Kent.
		In 455 the Saxon Chronicle records a battle between Hengest and Horsa and Vortigern at a place called Aegaels threp, in which Horsa was slain.
		Thenceforward Hengest reigned in Kent, together with his son Aesc (Oisc).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HENGEST_and_HORSA.htm (274 words)

	Hengest - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The actual historical existence of both Hengest and Horsa has been called into question numerous times, with many historians labeling these two as legendary 'divine twins' along the order of Romulus and Remus.
		Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
		Hengest;: A study in early English hero legend
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hengest.htm (428 words)

	Arthurian Biographies: Ambrosius Aurelianus
		Hengest (also spelled Hengist), probably a Jute, from Denmark, is said by the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC)" to be the son of Wihtgils in a direct line from the god, Woden; the brother of Horsa and the father of Octha and Aesc.
		The fragment tells the story of a band of warriors who accompany the Danish prince, Hnaef, on a visit to his sister, Hildeburh, who is married to a man named Finn, the ruler of the Frisians.
		The ASC has Hengest arriving in Britain in 449 and places his death in the year 488.
	www.britannia.com /history/biographies/hengest.html (324 words)

	Finn, Hoc, Hildeburh, Hnaef, Hengest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Finn, Hildeburh's husband, recognizes that he does not have the military strength to continue the fight and calls for a truce with Hengest and the Danes.
		Finn is killed, and Hildeburh returns to her Danish homeland bereft of brother, son, and husband.
		Gardner presents the section of the song in which Hengest is deciding that he prefers to renew his quarrel with Finn rather than to return peacefully to Denmark: "revenge called harder to him than home" (148).
	www.brtom.org /gr/finn.html (304 words)

	§4. "Finnsburh". III. Early National Poetry. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They are to enter Finn’s service and to be treated by him as generously as the Frisians themselves; and no taunt is to be raised against them on the ground that they have made terms with the man who slew their lord.
		A great funeral pyre is constructed for the bodies of the slain, and Hildeburh, apparently the wife of Finn and sister of Hnaef, bewails the loss of both her brother and her son.
		Hengest and his companions stay with Finn throughout the winter, though sorely tempted to exact vengeance.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/211/0304.html (709 words)

	TolkienWiki: Hengest
		Hengest and Horsa avenged Eoh and became great chieftains, but Ottor Waefre set out to seek, and find, TolEressëa (se uncupa holm, 'the unknown island').
		The sons of Eriol, Hengest, Horsa, and Heorrenda, conquered the Island (TolEressëa) and it became 'England'.
		Hengest and Horsa, the brother chieftains who led the first Saxoi~ bands which settled in England.
	www.thetolkienwiki.org /wiki.cgi?Hengest (394 words)

	Monmouth_resume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vortigern's Saxon wife, the daughter of Hengest, poisons Vortimer, and on his death Vortigern is restored.
		Hengest conceives and carries out a plan to slaughter the British aristocracy wholesale at a peace conference, though Vortigern is allowed to live.
		After Hengest's slaughter of the British aristocracy Aurelius Ambrosius, the second son of Constantine, comes from Armorica where he has been hiding, and is acclaimed king by the British.
	www.staff.ncl.ac.uk /hermann.moisl/sel248/monmouth_resume.htm (647 words)

	Ruin and Conquest of Britain: Summary
		In response to the threat of renewed Pictish raiding, Angle tribes are invited to settle in the East of Britain as federates.
		Hengest's mercenaries are reinforced from Saxony and Anglia.
		Hengest's son Octha leads a raid against the Picts and founds the English settlement in Bernicia (North of Hadrian's wall).
	www.mythiccrossroads.com /Wiseman/DECBsummary.html (893 words)

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		Hengest was dear to the king, and to him he gave Lindesey, and he gave Hors treasures enow, and all their knights he treated exceeding well, and thus a good time it stood in the same wise.
		Hengest went into the inn, where Rowenne dwelt; he caused her to be clad with excessive pride; all the clothes that she had on, they were most excellent, they were good with the best, embroidered with gold.
		Hengest heard that, fairest of all knights; then was he so blithe as he was never ere in life, for he thought to deceive the king in his realm.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/4/3/0/14305/14305-8.txt (20039 words)

	The Viking Danes - by Viggo Starcke
		Before Hengest came to Britain, he had been involved in struggles in the south of the Channel, against the Frisian King Finn, struggles which were sung by a bard in a renowned Old-English lay.
		That it is the same Hengest here sung, seems certain, for the name is rare, and both warriors were of the same nationality, had the same social and military status, lived at the same time and in the same district beside the English Channel.
		Judging by archaeological discoveries, the followers of Hengest and Horsa were a motley crew whom Hengest had collected from along all the shores of the North Sea: Jutes, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Frisians and Franks.
	www.grundskyld.dk /2-vikings.html (4015 words)

	witigislaus - pafg42.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		of Hengest, King of Kent (Hengist) (Hengst) Hengest, 4th of Woden King of Kent King of Saxons) was born in 1913 in Idaho.
		of Hengest, King of Kent (Hengist) (Hengst) Hengest, 4th of Woden King of Kent King of Saxons) was born in 1915 in Idaho.
		of Hengest, King of Kent (Hengist) (Hengst) Hengest, 4th of Woden King of Kent King of Saxons) was born in 1920 in Moscow, Idaho.
	www.helge.com /witigisla/pafg42.htm (1105 words)

	Historia Britonum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the keels had arrived, Hengest held a banquet for Vortigern, and his men and his interpreter, whose name was Ceretic, and he told the girl to serve their wine and spirits.
		Meanwhile, Vortigern's son Vortimer fought vigorously against Hengest and Horsa and their people, and expelled them as far as the aforesaid island called Thanet, and there three times shut them up and besieged them, attacking, threatening and terrifying them.
		On Hengest's death, his son Octha came down from the north of Britain to the kingdom of the Kentishmen, and from him are sprung the kings of the Kentishmen.
	www.staff.ncl.ac.uk /hermann.moisl/sel248/historia_britonum.htm (1143 words)

	Regia Anglorum - The Saxons
		In their days Hengest and Horsa, invited by Vortigern, King of the Britons, came to Britain at a place called Ebbsfleet at first to help the Britons, but later they fought against them.
		Hengest was recorded as having been the first Germanic chieftain of Kent, but it was likely he was probably little more than a warlord.
		A half century after the given arrival of Hengest there was still fighting going on between the Britons and the invaders to control areas of land.
	www.regia.org /Saxon1.htm (2406 words)

	Hengest and Horsa
		And interestingly even over 1500 years after Hengest was it's ruler, the modern day county of Kent still has a horse as it's county symbol.
		Hengest and Horsa are the names of two brothers who are said to have led the settlement of England by the Anglo-Saxons.
		The name Hengest means stallion and the name Horsa, not surprisingly, means horse, and the fact that they are historically said to be brothers or twins could indicate that Hengest and Horsa were originally born out of this ancient Germanic horse cult.
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /hengestandhorsa.html (528 words)

	FREE Barron's Booknotes-Beowulf-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes/Synopis/Chapter Notes
		All winter Hengest and a few of his men live in the hall at Finnsburg; the sea is too rough for them to return to Denmark.
		Hengest is torn between his desire for revenge against Finn, and his moral obligation to comply with the peace offering.
		The main characters in the Finnsburg Episode are Hildeburh-whose fate is to be torn apart by her bonds of kinship with the Finns and the Danes-and Hengest, whose code of ethics is upset by the conflict between honor and revenge.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/beowulf21.asp (830 words)

	SparkNotes: Grendel: Chapter 10
		The story of King Finn, Hengest, and the Danes, sung by the assistant at the Shaper’s funeral, is also sung in the Beowulf poem.
		Hengest has spent the winter stewing in his hate for King Finn.
		The coming of the spring brings freedom to Hengest and a decisive victory for the Danish people over their enemies.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/grendel/section10.rhtml (1174 words)

	HENCHMAN - LoveToKnow Article on HENCHMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		hengest, a horse, a word which occurs in many Teutonic languages, cf.
		The w,ord appears in the name, Hengest, of the Saxon chieftain (see HENGEST AND HORSA) and still survives in English in place and other names beginning with Hingst- or Hinx-.
		HePchmen, pages of honor or squires, rode or walked at the side of their master in processions and the like, and appear in the English royal household from the 14th century till Elizabeth abolished the royal henchmen, known also as the children of honor.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HENCHMAN.htm (183 words)

	MERCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Roman emperor was then at war with Atilla of the Huns, and could not offer any aid, so, driven to desperate measures, the ageing British monarch petitioned his war-like neighbours the Angles, then living in the low-lands immediately across the Channel.
		We are unable, therefore, to conclude if the British king gave to the Angles the wetlands north and east of the Thames which had been retaken from the northern barbarians in gratitude for the defeat of the Pictish army, or if they were wrested from him after the battle described above.
		Hengest then encouraged his Anglic brethren to settle in Britain, and before long their original homelands across the Channel was emptied, the whole of the lowlands between the Jutes to the north (in Jutland) and the Saxons to the south (in Saxony) becoming a wasteland.
	www.roman-britain.org /chase/_mercia.htm (1749 words)

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