Hengist was a legendary Anglo-Saxon leader of the 5th century AD. The adventures of Prince Breacan of Lochlann are part of the mythology of the naming of the Gulf of Corryvreckan (), a whirlpool between the islands of Jura and Scarba on the west coast of Scotland. The story goes that the tidal race was named after this Norse Prince "said to be son to the King of Denmark" who was shipwrecked there with a fleet of fifty ships. Breacan is reputed to be buried in a cave at (bay of the swine) at the north-western tip of Jura. According to Haswell-Smith (2004) Adomnan's Life of St Columba suggests this calamity occurred between Rathlin Island and the Antrim coast. W.H. Murray corroborates the view that the original story may have referred to this latter location, quoting the 10th century Glossary of Cormac who describes the tale of "Brecan, son of Maine, son of Nial Naoighhiallach". The same story is associated with the (pass of the grey dog), a tidal race further north between Scarba and Lunga. The prince's dog managed to swim to land and went in search of his master. Failing to find him on Jura or Scarba he tried to leap across the strait to Lunga, but missed his footing on which sits in the middle of the channel between the two islands. He slipped into the raging current and drowned as well, giving his own name in turn to the strait where he fell. See also Dubgaill and Finngaill , a 9th-century Irish poem. Notes References Annals of Ulster. CELT. Edition compiled by Pádraig Bambury and Stephen Beechinor. Retrieved 4 Dec 2011. Bromwich, Rachel (2006). Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain. University Of Wales Press. . Crawford, Barbara E. (1987) Scandinavian Scotland. Leicester University Press. Murray, W. H. (1966) The Hebrides. London. Heinemann. Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (1998) Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century CELT. Retrieved 15 Nov 2011. O'Donovan, John (translator) Annals of Ireland. (1860) Three fragments, copied from ancient sources by Dubhaltach MacFirbisigh; and edited, with a translation and notes, from a manuscript preserved in the Burgundian Library at Brussels. Dublin Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society. Retrieved 15 Nov 2011. Todd, James Henthorn (translator) (1867) Cogad Gaedel re Gallaib: The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill. London. Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. Watson, W. J. (1994) The Celtic