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Hengest (Paperback)
Loot Price: R229
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Hengest (Paperback)
Series: Lost Sagas
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Loot Price R229
Discovery Miles 2 290
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"Who are you men, armoured in mail, who come sailing upon the
sliding sea-road to the land of Britannia? Long have I held the
sea-watch in season as the king's coast-warden, that no pirates
might pillage the people of Vortigern. Never have I seen a noble
more mighty or more haughty " This is how the British coast-warden
greets Hengest, the first named Anglo-Saxon to come to Britain.
After the failure of the Finnesburh mission, King Hoc exiled
Hengest, and he set sail with three ships and three hundred men in
the hope of serving King Vortigern as a mercenary. The story that
follows is as exciting as the story of Beowulf. It includes several
battles, a femme fatale (Hengest's daughter, Rowena), and
characters from the Arthurian legend, including Merlin and Uther.
It also includes a battle between dragons, a contest between
wizards, and a clash of faiths. This reconstruction of the lost
Saga of Hengest is told in a modern version of the Anglo-Saxon
alliterative line and is closely based on original sources,
extracts from which are given at the end of the book along with
detailed notes and a bibliography.
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