- HENGIST AND HORSA
- two Saxon brothers who came over to assist Vortigern against the Picts, and were rewarded by a gift of Thanet, though they were afterwards defeated by Vortigern and the latter slain.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
HENGIST AND HORSA
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