Finn and Hengest

Later he added a pencilled footnote to this passage: When I propounded this view it had certainly not been printed by anyone else, nor uttered publicly or privately in my hearing.

Tplkien 's most important contribution to the interpretation of the story was what he refers to several times as the ''Jutes-on-both-sides'' theory. In the lecture notes he revised in the early 1940s he stated his position as follows: My private and patent solution, derivedfrom the next , and not solely devised in order to get round the difficulties of other views, is that Jutes were on both sides in the quarrel; on Finn's side, and on Hengest's side:it was a Jutish feud.