Re: Huns

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 6223
Date: 2001-02-28

--- In cybalist@..., "Steve Woodson" <wood2@...> wrote:
> "islands in the Ocean" refers to the Baltic not Britain.

I never said otherwise. But what is your source for that categorical
statement?


Possibly any Huns in England were mercenaries in the Roman army.

I am not sure that I know what "possibly any" means. In any case,
what is your source for that?


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:34 AM
> Subject: [tied] Huns
>
>
> >
> > Something from Galster's book that might interest also non-Danes:
> >
> > Saxo: Dan and Angel were the sons of a king Humbli.
> >
> > Roman de Brut, verse 1331: ...Humbers, roi des Hunus...
> >
> > The ON poem "The Battle of the Goths and Huns" describes Humli as
the
> > leader of the Huns.
> >
> > Jordanes: Hulmul/Humal.
> >
> > which all seems to suggest that the Danes and the Angles at one
time
> > were subjugated by the Huns.
> >
> > "A Frankish source" (some annal of the plunderings of the Normans
in
> > France 833-896) calls their homeland "Scanzia" and states that it
is
> > populated by Goths, Huns and Danes, which would suggest they are
not
> > yet extinct at that time. Galster suggests a connection with the
> > river Humber in England and the village of Hunsborough a few km
south
> > of Northampton. Morton, writing in the 18th century, states that a
> > Danish camp was situated there, therefore, presumably Huns went a-
> > viking with the Danes. In 448, Priskos, a Roman emissary, was
told in
> > Attila's camp in Pannonia that Attila had just added "the islands
in
> > the Ocean" to his empire.
> >
> > Saxo: Humbli's successor was Loter, his brother.
> >
> > Roman sources: Attila's brother-in-law war Laudarius.
> >
> > "The battle of the Goths and the Huns": Hlodr is also called
> > Humlungr, thus presumably Humbli's son.
> >
> >
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >