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Hengist meaning

One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.

Using Hengist

  • The main meaning on this page is: One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.
  • In the example corpus, hengist often appears in combinations such as: hengist and, that hengist, hengist to.

Context around Hengist

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 12 start, 6 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

orders 2× appoint 1× knows 1× notes 1× accepts 1× draws 1× off 1× brothers 1× rowena 1× brittonum 1×

Often after:

bows 1× notes 1× told 1× reassures 1× tells 1× may 1× intend 1× king 1× submits 1× manipulated 1×

Sentence patterns with Hengist

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

ambushed by hengist near salisbury 1× and orders hengist to invite 1× as the hengist of the 1× at hengist s mention 1× barely knows hengist that hengist 1× chapter 12 hengist tells vortigern 1× cuts off hengist s head 1× daughter rowena hengist is now 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to bede 1× after immediately executing 1× ancestry accession and 1× arthur charges but 1× at hengist s 1× eldol takes his 1×

Common sentence endings:

a later invention 1× a peace accord 1× a single thong 1× accept the appointment 1× arrived in britain 1× back to germania 1×

Words around Hengist

Just before it in the word index:

henggeler 4 hengfeng 2 hengeveld 2 henges 2 hengehold 2 henge 8

Just after it in the word index:

hengistbury 4 hengjang 2 hengjun 5 hengoed 2 hengqin 11 hengrove 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

abalone 77 abomination 77 addressable 77 aed 77 affable 77 akkadian 77

Corpus analysis for Hengist

  • In this selection, "hengist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, orders, appoint, knows, bows, notes and told stand out and add context to how "hengist" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include ambushed by hengist near salisbury and and orders hengist to invite. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "hengist" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and addressable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with hengist

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Hengist reassures Vortigern that Hengist will always be faithful to him. (11 words)

Ancestry, accession and chronology According to Bede, Æthelberht was descended directly from Hengist. (13 words)

Vortigern accepts Hengist's proposition and orders Hengist to invite more people from Hengist's homeland. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Hengist and Horsa appear in books 6 and 8: Book 6 In chapter 10 of book 6 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Geoffrey records that three brigandines (or long galleys) full of armed men commanded by two brothers, Hengist and Horsa, arrived in Britain. (43 words)

Vortigern responds that it is not in his power to appoint Hengist to these positions, reasoning that Hengist is a pagan, that he barely knows Hengist, that Hengist's people are strangers and that Vortigern's nobles would not accept the appointment. (42 words)

In the Historia Brittonum Hengist had an unnamed daughter (Historia Regum Britanniae first gave her name as Rowena ) who seduced Vortigern, eventually leading to the Treachery of the Long Knives when Hengist's men massacred the Britons at a peace accord. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

Vortigern responds that it is not in his power to appoint Hengist to these positions, reasoning that Hengist is a pagan, that he barely knows Hengist, that Hengist's people are strangers and that Vortigern's nobles would not accept the appointment.

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.

Vortigern accepts Hengist's proposition and orders Hengist to invite more people from Hengist's homeland.

Eldol takes his sword, draws Hengist out of the city, and cuts off Hengist's head.

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 and Horsa appear in books 6 and 8: Book 6 In chapter 10 of book 6 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Geoffrey records that three brigandines (or long galleys) full of armed men commanded by two brothers, Hengist and Horsa, arrived in Britain.

Hengist reassures Vortigern that Hengist will always be faithful to him.

In chapter 12, Hengist tells Vortigern that, due to Vortigern's marriage to his daughter Rowena, Hengist is now Vortigern's father, and Vortigern must now heed his counsel.

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In effect, none of them was likely a literal son of Hengist and their relation to Hengist may have been a later invention.

In the Historia Brittonum Hengist had an unnamed daughter (Historia Regum Britanniae first gave her name as Rowena ) who seduced Vortigern, eventually leading to the Treachery of the Long Knives when Hengist's men massacred the Britons at a peace accord.

Some scholars have proposed that the figure mentioned in both of these references is one and the same as the Hengist of the Hengist and Horsa accounts, though Horsa is not mentioned in either source.

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.

Vortigern allowed Hengist to send for more of Hengist's countrymen to come over to Britain and fight for Vortigern.

Written between 1616 and 1620, Thomas Middleton 's play Hengist, King of Kent features portrayals of both Hengist and Horsa (as Hersus).

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.

According to Bede, Hengist manipulated Vortigern into granting more land and allowing for more settlers to come in, paving the way for the Germanic settlement of Britain.

After immediately executing Vortigern's orders, Hengist took a bull's hide, and made the hide into a single thong.

Ancestry, accession and chronology According to Bede, Æthelberht was descended directly from Hengist.

Arthur charges, but kills a mere 470, ten more than the number of Britons ambushed by Hengist near Salisbury.

At Hengist's mention of Mercury, Vortigern looks "earnestly upon them" and asks them their religion.

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Common combinations with hengist

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "hengist" in a sentence?
An example: "Vortigern responds that it is not in his power to appoint Hengist to these positions, reasoning that Hengist is a pagan, that he barely knows Hengist, that Hengist's people are strangers and that Vortigern's nobles would not accept the appointment." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "hengist" from authentic English texts.
What does "hengist" mean?
Hengist means: One of a pair of brothers (the other being Horsa) said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century, and to have been the first of the Jutish kings of Kent.
How many example sentences with "hengist" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "hengist", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.