Hengist and Horsa and Vortigern

Hengist from John Speed’s 1611 “Saxon Heptarchy”   Wiki : Hengist and Horsa   Truly Boggled is me! The connections here are overwhelming. Two that stand out : Germanic twin brothers and divine Indo-European horse twins   Comnenus – broken down through various languages (previous posts somewhere hereabouts) means Horse    

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The History of Wales – 1584

King Arthur

This post links with two of my previous posts – Did you know…? Did Mary Sidney write Shakespeare’s Plays?   It has to do with the 1584 edition of The History of Wales.     I was stunned to see Mr David Powell’s dedication of this book that he helped finish after the death of […]

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