Horsa

Family: English · Role: commander · First appears: Book I · Chap. XV

Life events

• 449 · Hengist and Horsa became the first commanders of the invading Germanic forces.(Book I · Chap. XV)
  • With: Hengist
  • “The first commanders are said to have been the two brothers Hengist and Horsa.”
• 449 · Horsa was slain in battle by the Britons, and a monument was raised in his name.(Book I · Chap. XV · 📍 Kent)
  • “Of these Horsa was afterwards slain in battle by the Britons, and a monument, bearing his name, is still in existence in the eastern parts of Kent.”
• 449 · The invading nations increased rapidly, becoming a source of terror to the Britons who had invited them.(Book I · Chap. XV)
  • With: Hengist
  • “In a short time, swarms of the aforesaid nations came over into the island, and the foreigners began to increase so much, that they became a source of terror to the natives themselves who had invited them.”
• 449 · The invaders allied with the Picts and turned their weapons against their former British allies.(Book I · Chap. XV)
  • With: Hengist
  • “Then, having on a sudden entered into league with the Picts, whom they had by this time repelled by force of arms, they began to turn their weapons against their allies.”
• 449 · The invaders demanded greater supplies and threatened to break the league and ravage the island.(Book I · Chap. XV)
  • With: Hengist
  • “At first, they obliged them to furnish a greater quantity of provisions; and, seeking an occasion of quarrel, protested, that unless more plentiful supplies were brought them, they would break the league, and ravage all the island; nor were they backward in putting their threats into execution.”

Book I · Chap. XV

• siblings with Hengist “The first commanders are said to have been the two brothers Hengist and Horsa.”
• parent: Victgilsus (Victgilsus is the father of Horsa.) “They were the sons of Victgilsus, whose father was Vitta, son of Vecta, son of Woden;”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.