Hengist and Horsa

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Hengist (, HENG-gist) and Horsa are legendary Germanic brothers, who according to later English legends, led the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, the progenitor groups of modern English people, in their invasion of Great Britain in the fifth century.

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