Hengist
See also: hengist
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English hengest (“stallion”).
Proper noun edit
Hengist
- (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.