Family:
Children:
- (Unk Dau)
- (Unk Child)
Bibliography
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Ashe, Geoffrey. The Discovery of King Arthur. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1985. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ashe KArthur p[0-9]*].
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Parsons, John Carmi, Hengist. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 9/6/1998. Subject: Hengist. Apparently not archived by Google Groups. Author address: jparsons at chass dot utoronto dot ca. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Carmi Parsons SGM 9/6/1998-093453].
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Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History, London, Philmore, 1975. Rutgers Alex CS4.W33. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #[0-9]*].
- child:
- [Ref: Ashe KArthur p36, Wagner PedigreeProgress #29]
Research Notes:
428: Hengist and Horsa, brothers, landed with three shiploads of warriors
and were posted by Vortigern on Thanet at the tip of Kent. [Ref: Ashe KArthur
p41]
The best available account of the early Anglo-Saxon settlement, Barbara
Yorke's _Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England_ (London: Routledge,
1990), pp. 3-4, 15, 26, 74, describes Hengist and his "brother" Horsa as
almost certainly fabrications--that is, they never existed.
Yorke points to the prevalence, in the foundation stories of the Anglo-Saxon
kingdoms, of elements that recall the similar foundation legends of Norse and
other Indo-European peoples. Most particularly, she singles out the frequent
appearance in these stories of groups of near kinsmen whose names all begin
with the same letter--the obvious examples here being "Cerdic" and "Cynric" of
Wessex. She also notes that in many of the stories told of these early
Anglo-Saxon conquerors, the names given for the native British kings they
defeated are often suspiciously like the names of the regions these British
kings supposedly governed: "Cerdic" and "Cynric," for example, are said to
have defeated a British king named Natanleod after whom, according to the
_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, the district known as "Natanleaga" took its name.
Yorke points out, however, that this region in Hampshire is quite marshy and
very probably gets its name from the old English word "naet," which means
"wet." In other words, the name of King Natanleod was coined from the region,
and not vice versa.
Finally, Yorke emphasizes that all the chronicle sources from which these
foundation stories derive were written some centuries after the fact, and in a
predominantly oral culture, considerable allowance must be made for the
inevitable embroidery of these stories as they passed from teller to teller.
These foundation stories are one of the many cases in which, as we come
through history, each writer seems to know more about his subject than did the
writer who preceded him. In other words, the writers make up just as much (if
not more) than the oral tale-tellers did. The exception, of course, was Bede,
venerable for more than one reason, who was always careful to tell his readers
whenever he was recording something that he had only heard by report and that
he could not verify. As Yorke remarks (p. 3) the Hengist and Horsa story is
precisely one of those moments in Bede's history when he says exactly this.
[Ref: John Carmi Parsons SGM 9/6/1998-093453]
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