Hengist

See also: hengist

English

Etymology

From Old English hengest (“stallion”).

Proper noun

Hengist

1. (mythology) One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.
   • 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 37:

     Their captains were two brothers, called Hengist and Horsa.

Anagrams

• se'night, nighest, thinges, singeth, Githens, Thesing, signeth, sighten