Capitolo 24
Jutes attached and they conquered the Gaels, but then it turned against them
Allied Welsh.
In 455, the Jutes advanced from Thanet to conquer the whole one of Kent,
"and Hengest and Horsa fought with Vortigern the king", it says the English
Makes the chronicle of, "to the place that is cleped AEglesthrep; and there men killed
Horsa his/her brother, and after that Hengests it came to dominate, and AEsc his
child." Hengest and AEsc once more they fought a year later, with the Welsh to
Crayford, "and offslew 4,000 men; and the British then the forsook
Kent-earth, and it ran away with mickle frightens to London-bury." In this account us
you/he/she can see a weak memory of the setup of the two small Jutishes
you reign in Kent, with theirs respective capitals to Canterbury and
Rochester whose separate diocese still sharpens again to the two original
principalities. You/he/she can be worth whether to notice, also that the name AEsc
it intends the ash-tree; and what this tree was as sacred among plants as the
horse was among animals.
A core of the truth undoubtedly lingers nevertheless, in the traditional one
history. Thanet was after one of the first unloading-places of the
Danish: and his/her isolated position--for a wide belt of sea then separate
the island from the principal Kentish--a natural place would manufacture him to be
assigned by the Welsh to their piratical and doubtful allies. The inlet was
protected by the great Roman fortitude of Rhutupiae: and after the autumn of
that important fortitude, the English have probably been able to occupy the
principality in Kent Est, with his/her capital of Canterbury. The walls of
Rochester has been able to hold more from very out: and the kingdom of Kentish Di the west is able
well you/he/she has been founded by two battles succeeded to the passage of the
Medway and the Cray.
The legend as to the setup of Sussex it is of very the same kind. In
477, AElle the Saxon one suspiciously came also to Britain with the
symmetrical number of three ships. With him his/her three children, Kymens came,