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Swa monige boces hit teald, bēgen Hengest and Horsa [[Iotan]] waeron, and suna Iotisces heafodmenn, [[Wihtgils]] gehātte. Wihtgils wæs Witting, Witta Wecting, Wecta [[Wōdening|Wodning]], fram þan [[Wōden|Wodne]] awoc eall Englisc cyne cynn.
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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'.
Later accounts, in the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'', the ''[[Historia Britonum]]'', by [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]], and by [[Robert Wace]] add further details from tradition and legend about Hengest's career. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dates his death to 488, but does not provide a cause.
Hengest is the subject of the 1620 play ''Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Queenborough'' by [[Thomas Middleton]].
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'''Hengest''' is also a character in the ''Fight at Finnsburg'' narrative mentioned in the [[Finnsburg Fragment]] and the [[Beowulf]] poem. In these texts, Hengest is a [[Daner|Danish]] warrior who takes control of the Danish forces after the prince [[Hnæf]] is killed, and succeeds in killing the [[Frisian]] lord [[Finn]] in revenge for his lord's death.
Þā belimpas in these accounts had a historical basis, and have been supposed by historians to have occurred approximately [[450]] A.D. This makes these events contemporary with the [[Anglo-Saxon]] invasion of England, though what connection (if any) exists between the two Hengests is unknown.
Nevertheless, some have speculated that the two Hengests are one and the same. A point against this theory is the fact that one Hengest is described as a Jute and the other a Dane, though this does not serve as a conclusive disproof, as distinctions between adjacent groups (both Jutes and Danes lived in Denmark) were sometimes vague.
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