Re: Huns

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >

Running through the index of my Halweg Motoring Atlas of Europe I
came across Humblecourt, 60 km upstream from Chalons-sur-Marne, the
supposed site of the Battle of the Catalaunian fields.

>
> > Torsten