Hengest

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: After fifteen years the folk is assembled, all our nation-folk, and cast their lots; upon whom that it falleth, he shall depart from the land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "after fifteen years the folk is assembled, all our nation-folk, and cast their lots;"

• relationship: Answered the one who was the eldest brother: "Listen to me now, lord king, and I will make known to you what knights we are, and whence we are come. I hight Hengest. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then answered the one who was the eldest brother: "Listen to me now, lord king, and I will make known to you what knights we are, and whence we are come."

• attestation: In our land are strange tidings; after fifteen years the folk is assembled, all our nation-folk, and cast their lots. (Layamon's Brut)

  "In our land are strange tidings;"

• attribution: We are of Alemaine, a land noblest of all, of the same end that Angles is named. In our land are strange tidings. (Layamon's Brut)

  "we are of Alemaine, a land noblest of all, of the same end that Angles is named."

• attestation: The five shall remain, the sixth shall forth proceed out of the country to a foreign land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The five shall remain, the sixth shall forth proceed out of the country to a foreign land;"

• attestation: Be he man ever so loved, he shall forth depart. For there is folk very much, more than they would desire. (Layamon's Brut)

  "be he man ever so loved, he shall forth depart."

• attestation: For there is folk very much, more than they would desire; the women go there with child as the wild deer, every year they bear child there! (Layamon's Brut)

  "For there is folk very much, more than they would desire;"

• attestation: The women go there with child as the wild deer, every year they bear child there! That is fallen on us, that we should depart. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the women go there with child as the wild deer, every year they bear child there!"

• attestation: That is fallen on us, that we should depart. (Layamon's Brut)

  "That is fallen on us, that we should depart;"

• attestation: We might not remain, for life nor for death, nor for ever anything, for fear of the sovereign. Thus we fared there, and therefore are we now here, to seek under heaven land and good lord. (Layamon's Brut)

  "we might not remain, for life nor for death, nor for ever anything, for fear of the sovereign."

• attribution: What are your creeds, that ye in believe, and your dear god, whom ye worship?" Then answered Hengest, fairest of all knights—-in all this kingdom is not a knight so tall nor so strong:—-"We have good gods, whom we love in our mind, whom we have hope in, and serve them with might. The one hight Phebus. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And what are your creeds, that ye in believe, and your dear god, whom ye worship?" Then answered Hengest, fairest of all knights—-in all this kingdom is not a knight so tall nor so strong:—-"We have good gods, whom we love in our mind, whom we have hope in, and serve them with might."

• attribution: The third hight Woden, who is a mighty god; the fourth hight Jupiter, of all things he is aware. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the third hight Woden, who is a mighty god;"

• attestation: Hengest took leave, and gan wend to his ships. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest took leave, and gan wend to his ships;"

• attestation: There was many a strong knight; they drew their ships upon the land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "there was many a strong knight;"

• attestation: They drew their ships upon the land. Forth went the warriors to Vortiger the king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they drew their ships upon the land."

• attestation: Hengest went before, and Hors, next of all to him. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest went before, and Hors, next of all to him;"

• attestation: and afterwards they sent to him (Vortiger) their brave Saxish knights, Hengest's kinsmen, of his old race. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and afterwards they sent to him (Vortiger) their brave Saxish knights, Hengest's kinsmen, of his old race."

• attestation: Better were clothed and better were fed Hengest's swains, than Vortiger's thanes! Then was Vortiger's court held in contempt! (Layamon's Brut)

  "better were clothed and better were fed Hengest's swains, than Vortiger's thanes!"

• attestation: Befell it on a time, that the king was very blithe, on a high-day, among his people. Hengest bethought him what he might do, for he would hold secret discourse with the king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then befell it on a time, that the king was very blithe, on a high-day, among his people."

• attestation: Hengest bethought him what he might do, for he would hold secret discourse with the king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest bethought him what he might do, for he would hold secret discourse with the king;"

• attestation: He went before the king, and gan greet fair. The king up stood, and set him by himself. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he went before the king, and gan greet fair."

• attestation: The king up stood, and set him by himself. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The king up stood, and set him by himself;"

• attribution: They drank, they revelled--bliss was among them. Then quoth Hengest to the king: "Lord, hearken tidings, and I will tell thee of secret discourse, if thou wilt well listen to my advice, and not hold in wrath what I well teach. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they drank, they revelled--bliss was among them."

• attestation: Quoth Hengest to the king: "Lord, hearken tidings, and I will tell thee of secret discourse, if thou wilt well listen to my advice, and not hold in wrath what I well teach." And the king answered as Hengest would it. Then said Hengest, fairest of all knights: "Lord, I have many a day advanced thy honour, and been thy faithful man in thy rich court, and in each fight the highest of thy knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then quoth Hengest to the king: "Lord, hearken tidings, and I will tell thee of secret discourse, if thou wilt well listen to my advice, and not hold in wrath what I well teach." And the king answered as Hengest would it."

• attribution: Then said Hengest, fairest of all knights: "Lord, I have many a day advanced thy honour, and been thy faithful man in thy rich court, and in each fight the highest of thy knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then said Hengest, fairest of all knights: "Lord, I have many a day advanced thy honour, and been thy faithful man in thy rich court, and in each fight the highest of thy knights."

• relationship: Hengest took leave, and forth he gan pass, and after his wife he sent messengers, to his own land, and he himself went over this land, to seek a broad field whereon he might well spread his fair hide. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest took leave, and forth he gan pass, and after his wife he sent messengers, to his own land, and he himself went over this land, to seek a broad field whereon he might well spread his fair hide."

• attestation: He came to a spot, in a fair field, he had obtained a hide to his need, of a wild bull that was wondrously strong. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He came to a spot, in a fair field, he had obtained a hide to his need, of a wild bull that was wondrously strong."

• attestation: He had a wise man, who well knew of craft, who took this hide, and laid it on a board, and whet his shears, as if he would shear. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He had a wise man, who well knew of craft, who took this hide, and laid it on a board, and whet his shears, as if he would shear."

• attestation: Of the hide he carved a thong, very small and very long, the thong was not very broad, but as it were a thread of twine; when the thong was all slit, it was wondrously long, about therewith he encompassed a great deal of land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Of the hide he carved a thong, very small and very long, the thong was not very broad, but as it were a thread of twine;"

• attribution: When the thong was all slit, it was wondrously long, about therewith he encompassed a great deal of land. He began to dig a ditch very mickle, there upon a stone wall, that was strong over all, a burgh he areared, mickle and lofty. (Layamon's Brut)

  "when the thong was all slit, it was wondrously long, about therewith he encompassed a great deal of land."

• attestation: He began to dig a ditch very mickle, there upon a stone wall, that was strong over all, a burgh he areared, mickle and lofty. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He began to dig a ditch very mickle, there upon a stone wall, that was strong over all, a burgh he areared, mickle and lofty."

• attestation: Hengest went into the inn, where Rowenne dwelt. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest went into the inn, where Rowenne dwelt;"

• attestation: He caused her to be clad with excessive pride; all the clothes that she had on, they were most excellent, they were good with the best, embroidered with gold. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he caused her to be clad with excessive pride;"

• attestation: All the clothes that she had on, they were most excellent, they were good with the best, embroidered with gold. She bare in her hand a golden bowl, filled with wine, that was one wondrous good. (Layamon's Brut)

  "all the clothes that she had on, they were most excellent, they were good with the best, embroidered with gold."

• attribution: Garengan was an earl, who possessed Kent long, and his father before him, and he afterwards through his kin (by inheritance), when he best weened to hold his land, then had it the queen, and Hengest in his hand;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Garengan was an earl, who possessed Kent long, and his father before him, and he afterwards through his kin (by inheritance), when he best weened to hold his land, then had it the queen, and Hengest in his hand;"

• attestation: Strange it seemed to the knight, what the king thought. The king loved the heathens and harmed the Christians, the heathens had all this land to rule under their hand, and the king's three sons oft suffered sorrow and care. (Layamon's Brut)

  "strange it seemed to the knight, what the king thought."

• attestation: The king loved the heathens and harmed the Christians, the heathens had all this land to rule under their hand, and the king's three sons oft suffered sorrow and care. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The king loved the heathens and harmed the Christians, the heathens had all this land to rule under their hand, and the king's three sons oft suffered sorrow and care."

• attribution: Their mother was then dead, therefore they had the less counsel--their mother was a woman most good, and led a life very Christian, and their stepmother was heathen, Hengest's daughter. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Their mother was then dead, therefore they had the less counsel--their mother was a woman most good, and led a life very Christian, and their stepmother was heathen, Hengest's daughter."

• attestation: It was not long but a while, that the king made a feast, exceeding great, the heathens he brought thereto, he weened most well to do. (Layamon's Brut)

  "It was not long but a while, that the king made a feast, exceeding great, the heathens he brought thereto, he weened most well to do;"

• attestation: Thither came thanes, knights and swains. And all that knew of book (the Christians) forsook the feast, for the heathen men were highest in the court, and the Christian fold was held for base. (Layamon's Brut)

  "thither came thanes, knights and swains."

• attestation: All that knew of book (the Christians) forsook the feast, for the heathen men were highest in the court, and the Christian fold was held for base; the heathens were blithe, for the king loved them greatly. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And all that knew of book (the Christians) forsook the feast, for the heathen men were highest in the court, and the Christian fold was held for base;"

• attestation: The heathens were blithe, for the king loved them greatly. Hengest bethought him what he might do. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the heathens were blithe, for the king loved them greatly."

• relationship: Hengest sent his messengers into Saxland, and bade Octa come, and his wed-brother Ebissa, and all of their kindred that they might gain, and all the knights that they might get. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest sent his messengers into Saxland, and bade Octa come, and his wed-brother Ebissa, and all of their kindred that they might gain, and all the knights that they might get."

• attestation: Thereafter arrived five and five, by six, by seven, by ten, and by eleven; and thus the heathen warriors they arrived toward this land, to the court of this king, so that this land was so full of foreign people, that there was no man so wise, nor so quick-witted, that might separate the Christians and the heathens, for the heathens were so rife, and ever they speedily came! (Layamon's Brut)

  "thereafter arrived five and five, by six, by seven, by ten, and by eleven;"

• attestation: Thus the heathen warriors they arrived toward this land, to the court of this king, so that this land was so full of foreign people, that there was no man so wise, nor so quick-witted, that might separate the Christians and the heathens, for the heathens were so rife, and ever they speedily came! (Layamon's Brut)

  "and thus the heathen warriors they arrived toward this land, to the court of this king,"

• attestation: All thus it happened, as the counsel was done. (Layamon's Brut)

  "All thus it happened, as the counsel was done."

• relationship: he sent Hengest and Hors his brother, unless speedily they departed from this realm, he would evil do to them, both blind and hang them;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he sent Hengest and Hors his brother, unless speedily they departed from this realm, he would evil do to them, both blind and hang them;"

• relationship: His own father he would destroy, and all the heathens, with great strength. Then answered Hengest, fairest of all knights: "Here we will dwell winter and summer, ride and run with the King Vortiger. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and his own father he would destroy, and all the heathens, with great strength."

• attribution: Answered Hengest, fairest of all knights: "Here we will dwell winter and summer, ride and run with the King Vortiger; and all that with Vortimer go, they shall have sorrow and care! (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then answered Hengest, fairest of all knights: "Here we will dwell winter and summer, ride and run with the King Vortiger;"

• attestation: To them was come word, that Hengest lay at Epiford, upon the water that men name Darwent. There came together sixty thousand men. (Layamon's Brut)

  "to them was come word, that Hengest lay at Epiford, upon the water that men name Darwent."

• attestation: The Britons went to the land, to Vortimer their king, and Hengest spake with Vortiger, in most secret converse. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The Britons went to the land, to Vortimer their king, and Hengest spake with Vortiger, in most secret converse."

• relationship: Go we yet to Vortiger--of all kings be he most wretched!--he loved Rowenne, of the heathen race, Hengest's daughter, she seemed to him well soft. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Go we yet to Vortiger--of all kings be he most wretched!--he loved Rowenne, of the heathen race, Hengest's daughter, she seemed to him well soft."

• attestation: She sent him treasures of many a kind, of silver and of gold, the best of any land; she asked his favour, that she might here dwell with Vortiger his father, and follow his counsels. (Layamon's Brut)

  "she sent him treasures of many a kind, of silver and of gold, the best of any land;"

• attestation: Asked the king their peace, and thus he spake with them all: "Of all knights are ye best that serve any king; there is of me no other hap, but that speedily I be dead. (Layamon's Brut)

  "then asked the king their peace, and thus he spake with them all: "Of all knights are ye best that serve any king;"

• attestation: There is of me no other hap, but that speedily I be dead. Here I deliver you my land, all my silver and all my gold, and all my treasures--your worship is the greater. (Layamon's Brut)

  "there is of me no other hap, but that speedily I be dead."

• attestation: Here I deliver you my land, all my silver and all my gold, and all my treasures--your worship is the greater. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Here I deliver you my land, all my silver and all my gold, and all my treasures--your worship is the greater."

• attestation: Ye forth-right send after knights, and give them silver and gold, and hold ye yourselves your land, and avenge you, if ye can, of Saxish men; for when as I be departed, Hengest will make care to you. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And ye forth-right send after knights, and give them silver and gold, and hold ye yourselves your land, and avenge you, if ye can, of Saxish men;"

• attestation: For when as I be departed, Hengest will make care to you. And take ye my body, and lay in a chest, and carry me to the sea strand, where Saxish men will come on land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "for when as I be departed, Hengest will make care to you."

• attestation: The tidings came full soon to Vortiger the king, that Hengest was in haven with seven hundred ships. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The tidings came full soon to Vortiger the king, that Hengest was in haven with seven hundred ships."

• attestation: Hengest assembled a host of many kind of land, so that he had to wit seven hundred ships, and each ship he filled with three hundred knights;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest assembled a host of many kind of land, so that he had to wit seven hundred ships, and each ship he filled with three hundred knights;"

• attestation: in the Thames at London Hengest came to land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "in the Thames at London Hengest came to land."

• relationship: Hengest was of evil ware--that he well showed there--he took soon his messengers, and sent to the king, and greeted Vortiger the king with words most fair, and said that he was come as a father should to his son. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest was of evil ware--that he well showed there--he took soon his messengers, and sent to the king, and greeted Vortiger the king with words most fair, and said that he was come as a father should to his son;"

• attestation: He had brought, in this land, out of Saxland, seven hundred ships of heathen folk, "who are the bravest of all men that dwell under the sun, and I will," quoth Hengest, "lead them all to the king, at a set day, before all his people. (Layamon's Brut)

  "But he had brought, in this land, out of Saxland, seven hundred ships of heathen folk, "who are the bravest of all men that dwell under the sun, and I will," quoth Hengest, "lead them all to the king, at a set day, before all his people."

• attestation: I will remain with the best of all men, that is Vortiger the king, whom I love through all things." The tidings came to the Britons how Hengest them promised; then were they fain for his fair words, and set they peace and set amity to such a time that the king on a day would see this folk. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and I will remain with the best of all men, that is Vortiger the king, whom I love through all things." The tidings came to the Britons how Hengest them promised;"

• attestation: Were they fain for his fair words, and set they peace and set amity to such a time that the king on a day would see this folk. Hengest heard that, fairest of all knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "then were they fain for his fair words, and set they peace and set amity to such a time that the king on a day would see this folk."

• attribution: Hengest heard that, fairest of all knights;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest heard that, fairest of all knights;"

• attestation: Was he so blithe as he was never ere in life, for he thought to deceive the king in his realm. Here became Hengest wickedest of knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "then was he so blithe as he was never ere in life, for he thought to deceive the king in his realm."

• attestation: Here became Hengest wickedest of knights. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Here became Hengest wickedest of knights;"

• attestation: They smote on the right side, they smote on the left side, before and behind they laid them to the ground, all they slew that they came nigh; of the king's men there fell four hundred and five—-woe was the king alive! (Layamon's Brut)

  "they smote on the right side, they smote on the left side, before and behind they laid them to the ground, all they slew that they came nigh;"

• attestation: Of the king's men there fell four hundred and five—-woe was the king alive! Then Hengest grasped him with his grim gripe, and drew him to him by the mantle, so that the strings brake. (Layamon's Brut)

  "of the king's men there fell four hundred and five—-woe was the king alive!"

• attestation: Hengest grasped him with his grim gripe, and drew him to him by the mantle, so that the strings brake. And the Saxons set on him, and would the king kill, and Hengest gan him defend, and would not suffer it. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then Hengest grasped him with his grim gripe, and drew him to him by the mantle, so that the strings brake."

• attestation: The Saxons set on him, and would the king kill, and Hengest gan him defend, and would not suffer it; but he held him full fast, the while the fight lasted. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And the Saxons set on him, and would the king kill, and Hengest gan him defend, and would not suffer it;"

• attribution: When the Britons were mingled with the Saxons, then called Hengest, of knights most treacherous, "Take your saexes, my good warriors, and bravely bestir you, and spare ye none!" Noble Britons were there, but they knew not of the speech, what the Saxish men said them between. (Layamon's Brut)

  "When the Britons were mingled with the Saxons, then called Hengest, of knights most treacherous, "Take your saexes, my good warriors, and bravely bestir you, and spare ye none!" Noble Britons were there, but they knew not of the speech, what the Saxish men said them between."

• attestation: He held him full fast, the while the fight lasted. There was many noble Briton bereaved of the life! (Layamon's Brut)

  "but he held him full fast, the while the fight lasted."

• attestation: There was many noble Briton bereaved of the life! Some they fled quickly over the broad plain, and defended them with stones, for weapons had they none. (Layamon's Brut)

  "There was many noble Briton bereaved of the life!"

• attestation: Some they fled quickly over the broad plain, and defended them with stones, for weapons had they none. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Some they fled quickly over the broad plain, and defended them with stones, for weapons had they none."

• attestation: When he had together sixty thousand men, then assembled he the nobles that well could advise: "Good men. (Layamon's Brut)

  "When he had together sixty thousand men, then assembled he the nobles that well could advise: "Good men,"

• attestation: Upon the mount of Reir I will advise, that thou work a castle with strong stone wall, for there thou mightest dwell, and live with joy; and yet thou hast in thy hand much silver and gold, to maintain thy people who shall thee help, and so thou mightest in life live best of all. (Layamon's Brut)

  "upon the mount of Reir I will advise, that thou work a castle with strong stone wall, for there thou mightest dwell, and live with joy;"

• attestation: Yet thou hast in thy hand much silver and gold, to maintain thy people who shall thee help, and so thou mightest in life live best of all. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and yet thou hast in thy hand much silver and gold, to maintain thy people who shall thee help,"

• attestation: Say me, if thy will is, what betokeneth all this? (Layamon's Brut)

  "Say me, if thy will is, what betokeneth all this?"

• attestation: Afterwards thou must counsel me how I shall guide me, and how I may win my kingdom from Hengest, my wife's father, who hath harmed me greatly. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And afterwards thou must counsel me how I shall guide me, and how I may win my kingdom from Hengest,"

• attestation: Hengest heard this, strongest of all knights;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Hengest heard this, strongest of all knights;"

• attestation: For ever he had care of the heathen folk. And Aurelie with his host marched quickly towards him. (Layamon's Brut)

  "for ever he had care of the heathen folk."

• attestation: With a numerous host they fiercely marched, together soon they came, and terribly they slew, there the stern men together rushed themselves, helms there gan resound, knights there fell, steel went against the bones, mischief there was rife; streams of blood flowed in the ways. (Layamon's Brut)

  "With a numerous host they fiercely marched, together soon they came, and terribly they slew, there the stern men together rushed themselves, helms there gan resound, knights there fell, steel went against the bones, mischief there was rife;"

• attestation: Streams of blood flowed in the ways; the fields were dyed, and the grass changed colour! (Layamon's Brut)

  "streams of blood flowed in the ways;"

• attestation: The fields were dyed, and the grass changed colour! When Hengest saw that his help failed him, then withdrew he from the fight, and fled aside, and his folk after speedily moved. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the fields were dyed, and the grass changed colour!"

• attestation: Hengest fled or retreated (Layamon's Brut)

  "When Hengest saw that his help failed him, then withdrew he from the fight, and fled aside, and his folk after speedily moved."

• attribution: The Christians pursued after, and laid on them, and called Christ, God's son, to be to them in aid. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The Christians pursued after, and laid on them, and called Christ, God's son, to be to them in aid;"

• attribution: The heathen people also called loud, "Our God Tervagant, why failest thou us now?" When Hengest saw the heathens recede, and the Christian men come upon them, then fled Hengest through and through, until he came to Coningsburgh; in the burgh he went, safety to obtain. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and the heathen people also called loud, "Our God Tervagant, why failest thou us now?" When Hengest saw the heathens recede, and the Christian men come upon them, then fled Hengest through and through, until he came to Coningsburgh;"

• attestation: Scarcely was this speech said to the end, that they saw Hengest approach over the down. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Scarcely was this speech said to the end, that they saw Hengest approach over the down."

• attestation: Hengest engaged in combat involving Aldolf (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then was the baron Aldolf much the bolder, and heaved high his sword, and let it down swing, and smote Hengest on the hand, so that he let go his good brand;"

• attestation: Hengest engaged in combat involving Aldolf (Layamon's Brut)

  "In the fight came the Earl Aldolf of Gloucester, and found Hengest, wickedest of knights, where he fought fiercely, and felled the Christians."

• attestation: Hengest engaged in combat involving Aldolf (Layamon's Brut)

  "Aldolf drew his good sword, and upon Hengest smote;"

• attestation: Hengest cast the shield before him, and else were his life destroyed; and Aldolf smote on the shield, so that it was shivered in two. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and Hengest cast the shield before him, and else were his life destroyed;"

• attestation: Hengest engaged in combat involving Aldolf (Layamon's Brut)

  "And Hengest leapt to him, as if it were a lion, and smote upon Aldolf's helm, so that it parted in two."

• attestation: In haste grasped him, with his grim looks, by the cuirasses hood that was on his head, and with great strength struck him down; and then he him up drew, as if he would crush him, and with arms embraced him, and forth him led. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and in haste grasped him, with his grim looks, by the cuirasses hood that was on his head, and with great strength struck him down;"

• attestation: He him up drew, as if he would crush him, and with arms embraced him, and forth him led. Now was Hengest taken, through Aldolf, the brave man! (Layamon's Brut)

  "and then he him up drew, as if he would crush him, and with arms embraced him, and forth him led."

• attestation: Now was Hengest taken, through Aldolf, the brave man! (Layamon's Brut)

  "Now was Hengest taken, through Aldolf, the brave man!"

• attribution: Hengest engaged in combat involving Aldolf (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then called Aldolf, the Earl of Gloucester: "Hengest, it is not so merry for thee now as it was whilom by Ambresbury, where thou drewest the axes, and slew the Britons, with much treachery thou slewest my kindred!"

• attestation: With cruel death perish in the world!" Hengest proceeded still (without speaking); he saw no help. (Layamon's Brut)

  "with cruel death perish in the world!" Hengest proceeded still (without speaking);"

• attestation: He is a heathen hound—hell he shall seek; there he shall sink for his treachery! (Layamon's Brut)

  "and he is a heathen hound—hell he shall seek;"

• attestation: There he shall sink for his treachery! Lord king, hearken to me, what I thee will tell. (Layamon's Brut)

  "there he shall sink for his treachery!"

• attestation: Lord king, hearken to me, what I thee will tell. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Lord king, hearken to me, what I thee will tell."

• attribution: A king was in Jerusalem, who was named Saul. (Layamon's Brut)

  "A king was in Jerusalem, who was named Saul;"

• attribution: In heathendom was a king of mickle might, who was named Agag—Jerusalem he hated—he was king of the Amalech—the Worse was full nigh to him! Ever he hated Jerusalem with harm the most. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and in heathendom was a king of mickle might, who was named Agag—Jerusalem he hated—he was king of the Amalech—the Worse was full nigh to him!"

• attestation: Ever he hated Jerusalem with harm the most. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Ever he hated Jerusalem with harm the most;"

• attestation: Never would he give them peace, but ever he withstood them; he burnt them, he slew them, he did them sorrow enow! (Layamon's Brut)

  "never would he give them peace, but ever he withstood them;"

• attestation: Together came the host that lay over the land. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Together came the host that lay over the land;"

• attestation: they saw Octa naked come, that was Hengest's son. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they saw Octa naked come, that was Hengest's son."

• attestation: They held husting, and became heathens, then came there together, of Hengest's kindred, five and sixty hundred of heathen men. (Layamon's Brut)

  "They held husting, and became heathens, then came there together, of Hengest's kindred, five and sixty hundred of heathen men."

• attestation: There came ever more and more, and proceeded toward Octa, when they together were all come, then were there thirty thousand, without the women, of Hengest's kin. They took their host, and forth gan to fare, and set all in their hand beyond the Humber, and the people, where they gan march, there was a marvellous host! (Layamon's Brut)

  "There came ever more and more, and proceeded toward Octa, when they together were all come, then were there thirty thousand, without the women, of Hengest's kin."

• attestation: At the midnight prepare us to fight, these heathen hounds account us all here bound. Octa, Hengest's son, weeneth that we are all taken, they he in these fields covered in their tents, they are very weary of carrying their weapons, now anon they shall slumber, and afterwards sleep. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And at the midnight prepare us to fight, these heathen hounds account us all here bound."

• relationship: The yet lay Octa, Hengest's son, bound in the prison of London, who was taken at York, and his comrade Ebissa, and his other Ossa. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The yet lay Octa, Hengest's son, bound in the prison of London, who was taken at York, and his comrade Ebissa, and his other Ossa."

• attestation: Well blithe was then Hengest's son Octa, when he saw the Britons recede from the walls, and go sorrowful again to their tents. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Well blithe was then Hengest's son Octa, when he saw the Britons recede from the walls, and go sorrowful again to their tents."

• attestation: The Saxish men fled exceeding fast, that had aside retreated from the fight. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The Saxish men fled exceeding fast, that had aside retreated from the fight;"

• attestation: He was Hengest's relation, and dearest of men to him. (Layamon's Brut)

  "He was Hengest's relation, and dearest of men to him;"

• attestation: Thou climbed on this hill wondrously high, as if thou wouldst ascend to heaven. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Thou climbed on this hill wondrously high, as if thou wouldst ascend to heaven;"

• attestation: Now thou shalt to hell, and there thou mayest know much of thy kindred. And greet thou there Hengest, that was fairest of knights, Ebissa, and Ossa, Octa, and more of thy kin, and bid them there dwell winter and summer. (Layamon's Brut)

  "but now thou shalt to hell, and there thou mayest know much of thy kindred."

• attribution: And greet thou there Hengest, that was fairest of knights, Ebissa, and Ossa, Octa, and more of thy kin, and bid them there dwell winter and summer;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And greet thou there Hengest, that was fairest of knights, Ebissa, and Ossa, Octa, and more of thy kin, and bid them there dwell winter and summer;"

• attestation: We shall here in land live in bliss, pray for your souls, that happiness never come to them; and here shall your yones lie, beside Bath! (Layamon's Brut)

  "and we shall here in land live in bliss, pray for your souls, that happiness never come to them;"