Horsa
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
TWO BROTHERS CALLED STALLION AND HORSE. The record states the names' meanings and does not draw the conclusion from them, which is the same restraint this programme applied to Otso's by-names in lane 20: an etymology is a fact about a name.
Relations
- sibling: Hengist of KentReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: Hengist and Horsa are brothers. (secondary)
- invited by: VortigernCross-tradition, non-symmetric; see the note on Hengist's record.Reference treatment: in 449 Vortigern invited Hengist and Horsa to Britain to assist his forces against the Picts. (secondary)
Sources
- Horsa is Hengist's brother, one of the two leaders Vortigern invites to Britain, killed at Aegelsthrep in 455.: Reference treatments of Hengist and Horsa and of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (secondary)