twin-heroes

Updated: July 23, 2026

Here, in England, at any rate, we have only to think of Hengist and Horsa, the twin-heroes of the Anglo-Saxon migration, as the legend ran heroes whose name meant 'horse' and of the vale of the White Horse in Berks., where the sacred form still gleams along the down, to be reminded of the sacredness of the horse to our forefathers.

Sir George Webbe Dasent - Popular Tales from the Norse