Hengest and Horsa meeting King Vortgern in the Isle of Thanet
This illustration has been copied from an original Copper Plate engraving published in 1773 Hengist Hors figures of Anglo-Saxon legend, which records the two as the Germanic brothers who led the Angle, Saxon, and Jutish armies that conquered the first territories of Britain in the 5th century. Tradition lists Hengist (through his son, founder of the Kingdom of Kent
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