128. This 'invitation', which may derive some countenance
from the loose expressions of Gildas and Bede, is framed
into a regular story by Witikind, a Saxon monk of the tenth
century (see Cousin, Hist. de l'Empire d'Occident, tom. ii.
p. 356). Rapin, and even Hume, have too freely used this
suspicious evidence without regarding the precise and
probable testimony of Nennius: Interea venerunt tres Chiulae
a Germania 'in exilio pulsae', in quibus erant Hors et
Hengist [c. 28].