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Hengist asks Vortigen to allow him to send word to Saxony to bring over more soldiers so that the Saxon forces will be better able to oppose the call to depose Vortigern.
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Hengist and asks
Vortigern asks Hengist and Horsa if they will help him in his wars, and offers them land and " other possessions.
Hengist asks Vortigern to give him only enough land that Hengist can encircle with a leather thong, so that Hengist may build a fortress upon it — in case a future retreat may require it.
Hengist and allow
Horsa and the men all agree that Hengist should allow the marriage.
Hengist and him
Hengist, having previously " consulted with the Elders who attended him of the Angle race ," demanded Kent.
However, the Saxons continued to increase in numbers, and after Hengist died his son Ochta succeeded him.
Hengist — here Geoffrey notes whose " years and wisdom entitled him to precedence "— responds for the company, stating that they have come from their homeland of Saxony, and that they had come to offer their services to Vortigern or some other prince.
" Geoffrey refers to Hengist as a " man of experience and subtilty ," and records that Hengist told Vortigern that Vortigern's enemies assail him from every quarter, and that few of Vortigern's subjects love him.
Hengist bows low in thanks, and tells Vortigern that, while Vortigern has provided him with much land, he wishes Vortigern would make of him a consul or a prince, as Hengist notes Hengist's royal heritage dictates.
Hengist reassures Vortigern that Hengist will always be faithful to him.
Rowena sends messengers to her father Hengist to alert him of the plight of the Britons.
While consulting with the Britons, who would not be suspicious, Hengist would give out the command " Nemet oure Saxas ," and, at that moment, every soldier must be ready to seize the Briton closest to him and, with their drawn dagger, stab him.
Hengist tells these chosen men not to be afraid of Aurelius, for Aurelius must only have had a few Armorican Britons, as their numbers did not exceed ten thousand, and the native Britons he did not mention, " since they had been so often defeated by him.
He may have been the " superbus tyrannus " said to have invited Hengist and Horsa to aid him in fighting the Picts and the Scots.
After the Romans leave, Vortigern comes to power, and invites the Saxons under Hengist and Horsa to fight for him as mercenaries, but they rise against him, and Britain remains in a state of war under Aurelius Ambrosius and his brother Uther Pendragon, assisted by the wizard Merlin.
Hengist and send
Vortigern allowed Hengist to send for more of Hengist's countrymen to come over to Britain and fight for Vortigern.
" With Vortigern's approval, Hengist would send for his son and his brother to fight against the Scots and those who dwell in the north " near the wall called Guaul.
Hengist continued to send for more ships from his country, so that some islands where his people had previously dwelt are now free of inhabitants.
Yet now that he, Hengist, no longer doubts the death of Vortimer, Hengist submits himself and his people to the will of Vortigern, so that he will accept whomever Vortigern likes among his men, and send the rest back to Germania.
Hengist and word
Hengist and Horsa sent word to the Angles describing " the worthlessness of the Britons, and the richness of the land " and asked for assistance.
Hengist and Saxony
Hengist continues that they were driven from their native country because " the laws of the kingdom require it " and details that Saxony had become overpopulated ; the tradition of their people dictates that when their lands are overstocked with people, the princes of all their provinces meet, and they order that all of the youth of the kingdom assemble before them.
On farmhouses in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany, horse head gables were referred to as " Hengist and Hors " as late as around 1875.
Hengist and bring
Vortigern accepted, and Hengist prepared a feast to bring together the British and Saxon leaders.
Hengist continues that Vortigern's subjects threaten Vortigern and say that they will bring over Aurelius Ambrosius from Armorica to depose Vortigern and make Aurelius king.
Hengist and over
After a rebellion over pay and the death of Horsa in battle, Hengist established the kingdom of Kent.
Vortigern agrees, adds that Hengist may invite over whom he pleases and tells Hengist that " you shall have no refusal from me in whatever you shall desire.
All the while Hengist continues inviting over yet more ships, adding to his numbers daily.
Aurelius, " who showed moderation in all his conduct ," arranged for Hengist to be buried and a mound be raised over his corpse " according to the custom of pagans.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( written over 400 years later ) describes how Hengist and Aesc defeated the " Brettas ", usually interpreted as Britons, and often over-interpreted as " Celtic ".
Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote about the town, claiming that it had been fortified by Ambrosius Aurelianus, king of the Britons after his victory over the Saxon forces of Hengist ( Historia Regum Britanniae viii, 7 ), that the captive Saxon leader Hengist was hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls, and was buried at " Hengist's Mound " in the town.
Hengist and more
Vortigern accepts Hengist's proposition and orders Hengist to invite more people from Hengist's homeland.
On the other side, Hengist was placing his troops into formation, giving directions, and walking through the lines of troops, " the more to spirit them up.
Patrick Sims-Williams is more skeptical of the account, suggesting that Bede's Canterbury source, for which he relied on for his account of Hengist and Horsa in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, had confused two separate traditions.
Hengist, according to Bede, manipulated Vortigern into granting more land and allowing for more settlers to come in, paving the way for the Germanic settlement of Britain.
Her talk was said by her friends, Elizabeth Browning and Hengist Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer.
Hengist and soldiers
" After their arrival, Hengist invites Vortigern to see his new buildings and the newly arrived soldiers.
Hengist orders each of his soldiers to carry a long dagger beneath their clothing.
Hengist and so
Prior to the feast, Hengist enjoined his daughter to serve the guests plenty of wine and ale so that they would get very intoxicated.
" Hengist notes that his retinue is the result of this process, and through this custom Hengist and his brother Horsa were made generals " out of respect to our ancestors, who enjoyed the same honour ," and so they have arrived in Vortigern's kingdom " under the good guidance of Mercury.
The ambassadors inform Vortigern that Hengist does not intend to stay with Vortigern nor does Hengist intend to attack his countrymen, but rather he has brought his men because he thought Vortimer was yet living, so that he could defend himself.
In one scene at Caesar's palace, when Mark Antony demands Hengist to describe his " fight " with the conspirators, he accidentally chops the arms off a statue of the goddess, Venus, apparently creating the Venus de Milo in doing so.
It happened however after the death of Vortimer, son of King Vortigern, and after the return of Hengist with his forces, they called for a false Council, so that they might work sorrow to Vortigern with his army.
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