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Showing posts with label Hengist and Horsa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hengist and Horsa. Show all posts

Wednesday

Longships

Currently enjoying the Wonders of Iceland season of programmes on BBC Four (rapidly becoming my favourite channel!).

Which is a good excuse for some pictures of the Hugin longship, which can be found at Pegwell Bay in Kent.


It's actually a replica, built in Denmark and sailed to England in1949, to mark the 1,500th anniversary of the voyage taken by Hengist & Horsa which is considered the starting point of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England.

When I was a lad, I just knew Hengist & Horsa as cross channel car ferries.  Ah the ignorance of youth!