Strip of water but now it is no longer an island. At this time it was cut off from the mainland by a
Vortigern gave the bothers the Isle of Thanet, the most easterly point of Kent. In 449 AD (the dates are an approximation), the Chronicle says, two brothers of the Jutish tribe, Hengist and Horsa, were employed as mercenaries by Vortigern to help defend the landsĪgainst attacks from the Picts and Scots. The Chronicle tells of a ruler of the Britons called Vortigern, a warlord who may have ruled Britain after the Romans departed.
While the Romans were present in Britain they were able to keep the Picts in the north and Scots in the West at bay, but when the Romans left Britain in 410 the native Britonsįaced attacks from both.
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