Re: [tied] Huns

"islands in the Ocean" refers to the Baltic not Britain. Possibly any Huns
in England were mercenaries in the Roman army.

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Subject: [tied] Huns


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> Something from Galster's book that might interest also non-Danes:
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> Saxo: Dan and Angel were the sons of a king Humbli.
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> Roman de Brut, verse 1331: ...Humbers, roi des Hunus...
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> The ON poem "The Battle of the Goths and Huns" describes Humli as the
> leader of the Huns.
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> Jordanes: Hulmul/Humal.
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> which all seems to suggest that the Danes and the Angles at one time
> were subjugated by the Huns.
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> "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.
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> Saxo: Humbli's successor was Loter, his brother.
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> Roman sources: Attila's brother-in-law war Laudarius.
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> "The battle of the Goths and the Huns": Hlodr is also called
> Humlungr, thus presumably Humbli's son.
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> Torsten
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