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hengest
† ˈhengest Obs. Also 1 hencgest, hengst, 2 hængest. [OE. hęngest, hęngst = OFris. hengst, hingst, hangst, MDu. henghest, henxt, etc. (Du. hengst), OHG. hęngist (mod.G. hengst), LG. (Sw., Da.) hingst. (See also henchman.) The sense has varied in different langs. and at different periods, as stallion,...
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Hengist (disambiguation)
Saxon king by Thomas Middleton
MV Hengist, a ferry formerly used in the Dover-to-Calais channel crossing
Slingsby Hengist, a British World War II glider
Hengest
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Witta, son of Wecta
Witta son of Wecta is mentioned as a Jutish chieftain in the 449 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the father of Wihtgils and the grandfather of Hengest
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Wecta
Wecta is considered mythological, though he shows up in the genealogies as a Saxon ancestor of Hengest and Horsa and the kings of Kent, as well as of Aella
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surnominal
surnominal, a. (sɜːˈnɒmɪnəl) [f. surname n., after name, nominal.] Of or pertaining to surnames.1875 Lower Eng. Surnames (ed. 4) II. viii. 83 The surnominal characteristics of that province. 1914 E. Weekley Romance of Names (ed. 2) 186 The first element is Anglo-Sax. hengest, stallion, and its most ...
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Rowena (disambiguation)
Rowena is a figure in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the daughter of the Saxon king Hengest and wife of Vortigern.
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Vortimer
According to the Historia, Vortigern allows Saxons under Hengest and Horsa to settle on the Isle of Thanet, and offers them provisions in exchange for Vortigern soon proves to be an "ignorant king", and the wily Hengest manipulates him into ceding over more land and allowing more settlers to come from
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Victim You
The tracks were released on SYME Music Publishing's own label Hengest Records, which licensed the recordings worldwide to various labels.
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Hinksey
It may also mean "island of a man named Hengest", but there is no evidence to link the place to the historical Hengest.
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Alan Bliss
Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode. London, George Allen & Unwin.
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Oisc of Kent
Anglo-Saxon king-lists generally present Oisc as the son or the grandson of Hengest, who according to other sources led the initial Anglo-Saxon conquest Bede indicates that he was the son of Hengest and travelled to Britain with him, with the permission of the British king Vortigern.
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The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff novel)
Bad harvests force the Jutes to accept Hengest's invitation to settle in Britain. With the Romans gone and Vortigern too powerless to resist, Hengest has free run of the land.
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Finnesburg Fragment
This is also true of Hengest. In the Finn Episode Hengest plays an extremely important role in the way the story plays out. ("and Hengest sylf / hwearf him on laste").
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Battle of Wippedesfleot
The Battle of Wippedesfleot was a battle in 466 between the Anglo-Saxons (or Jutes), led by Hengest, and the Britons. It is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle thus:
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465: Here Hengest and Æsc fought together against Welsh (= Britons) near Wippedesfleot and there
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Battle of Finnsburg
Hnæf's retainer Hengest took command, and the sides engaged in a peace treaty; but Hengest and the Danes later avenged Hnæf's death and slaughtered the Hengest is now the commander of the defenders.
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