Toscead betweox fadungum "Hengest"

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Þá sóþsaca his lífes sind ungecnáwen, ac æfter [[Bede]] (se wrát nearly 200 géara æfter þǽm belimpum on frignunge), wǽron hé and his bróðor [[Horsa]] [[esnewyrhta]]n þǽm Bryttiscan wealdende [[Vortigern]]e, and wurdon gehýrode tó campienne wiþ þá [[Pictas]]. Æfter his sigum wiþ þá Pictas, ingelaðode má landsétan of [[Germanie|Germanian]] tó undersittenne in [[Bryten]]e and þá wiþfuhton wiþ Vortigern, þá staðolode hine selfne swá cyning in Cente.
 
Bégen Hengest and Horsa are described as being [[Iotan]], and suna Iotisces chiefheafodmenn, [[Wihtgils]] gehátte.
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The actual historical existence of both Hengest and Horsa has been called into question numerous times, with many historians labeling these two as legendary 'divine twins' along the order of [[Romulus and Remus|Romulus]] and [[Remus]]. It is perhaps more likely that ''Hengest'', was an honorific for an actual warlord, while Horsa was a later accretion to the story, perhaps as a misreading of a gloss in a manuscript that was written to define the name Hengest as meaning 'horse'.