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