Hengist

or Hen·gest

[ heng-gist, hen-jist ]

noun

1. died a.d. 488?, chief of the Jutes: with his brother Horsa led the Teutonic invasion of southern Britain c440.

Hengist

/ ˈhɛŋɡɪst /

noun

1. Hengist?488MJutishPOLITICS: leader died ?488 ad , a leader, with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain; he is thought to have conquered Kent (?455)

Example Sentences

In John Adams' telling, Jefferson even wanted America’s national seal to feature an image of the great Anglo-Saxon chiefs Hengist and Horsa, “from whom we claim the honor of being descended and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed.”

From Salon

Its recipient was Richard Hengist Horne, a literary man about town.

From The Guardian

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recounts that in 449 C.E., two Germanic tribespeople, Hengist and Horsa, sailed from what is now the Netherlands to southeast England, starting a fierce conflict.

From Science Magazine

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recounts that in 449 C.E., two Germanic tribespeople, Hengist and Horsa, sailed from what is now the Netherlands to southeast England, starting a fierce conflict.

From Science Magazine

They decided with that credulous sentimentality imported into Great Britain with Hengist and Horsa that she must be very deeply in love with her husband; no one suspected that she might be more deeply in love with herself.

From Project Gutenberg