Isle of Thanet
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The Isle of Thanet is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the 600-metre-wide Wantsum Channel, it is no longer an island.
The Isle of Thanet seen from the north
The Isle of Thanet seen from the south
Hengist and Horsa
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Hengist 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
Isle of Thanet
…kills snakes there." The Historia Brittonum, written in the 9th century, states that "Tanet" was the name used for the island by the legendary Jutes Hengist and Horsa, while its name in Old Welsh was "Ruoi(c)hin"; this name may be translated as "gift" (rhwych in Modern Welsh). Other names used by Britons were "Ruim…
The brothers in Edward Parrott's Pageant of British History (1909)
Hengist from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy"
Hengist and Horsa arriving in Britain, as depicted by Richard Rowlands (1605)
Vortigern and Rowena, by William Hamilton (1793)