1. Later accounts in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the Historia Britonum , Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae , and Wace 's Roman de Brut add further details from tradition and legend about Hengest's career.

2. The Arthurian legend has existed for over a thousand years and is just as compelling today as it was in the faraway days of its early creators – Geoffrey of Monmouth, Robert de Boron, Chrétien de Troyes, and most majestically: Sir Thomas Malory in his epic work, Le Morte d’Arthur.