![]() Most modern scholarly consensus now regards Hengist and Horsa to be mythical figures, and much scholarship has emphasised the likelihood of this based on their alliterative animal names, the seemingly constructed nature of their genealogy, and the unknowable quality of the earliest sources of information for their reports in the works of Bede. Tradition lists Hengist as the first of the Jutish kings of Kent. Hengist and Horsa are Germanic brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century. ![]() The brothers in Edward Parrott's Pageant of British History (1909) Hengist from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy" For other uses, see Hengist (disambiguation) and Horsa (disambiguation). ![]()
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