Hengest of Finnsburg
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · mortal
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: Hnæf
- killed: Finn
- distinguished by this registry from: Hengist of Kent
Sources
- Reference treatments of the Finnsburg episode, the Finnsburg Fragment, and of Finn and Hengest.