Re: Huns

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

> --- 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.

And I forgot to mention that the whole point of this exercise was to
claim that Attila was also known by the name of Humli.
Oh what bliss it is to argue with oneself! No furious linguists on
the horizon!

>
> >
> > > Torsten