Hengest of Finnsburg
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
ONE OF TWO RECORDS FOR A NAME THAT MAY BE ONE MAN. Built only from the Finnsburg material: nothing about Kent, nothing about Vortigern, nothing about the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is on this record. The id is qualified, as lanes 16, 17, 18 and 20 qualified ids where one tradition had two claimants to a name.
Relations
- retainer of: HnæfIn-batch.Reference treatment: Hengest leads Hnaef's surviving men after his lord's death. (secondary)
- killed: FinnIn-batch.Reference treatment: Hengest broke the truce and killed Finn. (secondary)
- distinguished by this registry from: Hengist of KentReciprocated in-batch. THE EDGE ASSERTS ONLY THAT THIS REGISTRY HOLDS TWO RECORDS AND WHY. It does not assert they are two men and it does not assert they are one.Reference treatment: Finn and Hengest, Tolkien's lectures, argue that the Hengest of the Finnsburg episode is the Hengist who lands in Kent; the identification is not universally accepted. (secondary)
Sources
- Hengest of the Finnsburg episode is Hnæf's retainer, who takes the winter truce with Finn and breaks it in the spring.: Reference treatments of the Finnsburg episode, the Finnsburg Fragment, and of Finn and Hengest. (secondary)