Huns

History.com ^ | 6/18/23 | History.com Editors

[DallasBiff]

The Huns were nomadic warriors who terrorized much of Europe and the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D. They were impressive horsemen best known for their astounding military achievements. As they plundered their way across the European continent, the Huns acquired a reputation for being ruthless, indomitable savages.

[DallasBiff]

Well I know, Huns were bad, but their history, should be known.

[PGR88]

[shotgun]

The only good Hun is a dead Hun...

[packagingguy]

Hilla the Hun is still remembered in history!

[PAR35]

Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

Kaiser Wilhelm to the German troops dispatched to deal with the Boxer Rebellion

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Early footage of huns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKW7UTmn1g

(The Attila the Hun Show)

[Red Badger]

[Magnum44]

[Roadrunner383]

What’s your preferred load for Huns? Not something that you normally see down here in GA.

[BenLurkin]

[Bigg Red]

And, today, Europe is being invaded once again by barbarians

[DFG]

“Beware of the Hun in the sun”

[fidelis]

And, today, Europe is being invaded once again by barbarians

And, once again, no one in Europe but the Poles and Hungarians are lifting a finger to stop them.

[xp38]

My father was Hungarian so I suppose I have some Hun blood in me but I’ve never had an urge to sack and pillage so who knows.

[Tell It Right]

I read years ago that possibly one of their motivations for moving west-southwest into Roman lands was Dark Age cooling period that begin roughly AD 300 (where the Roman Warm Period tops off and starts going down in the image below). I guess that's possible. We know that in the Old World as that cooling period took hold it forced cities to depopulate and people to spread out because of lower crop yields, less predictable rain patters, and deaths by plague.

And their push into the Goth Germanic tribes, and later on into western Roman empire lands is what forced the Goth tribes into modern day Germany lands. This is where other Germanic tribes were at: Anglos and Saxon -- forcing them up north into Denmark. Eventually the Anglos, Saxons and Jutes migrated into Britannia (some say it's because the marsh lands were uninhabitable, some say it's from Hun intrusion up into Denmark, maybe a combination).

In short, the Huns are the starting catalyst (unless you count global cooling as the real start) of why my Anglo ancestors had their own Trail of Tears. But nobody talks about it or demands reparations from Germany or the Huns (today's Chauvish folks in Russia?, or were they mostly absorbed into Turkey and Iran?, where they the Turks and Iranians and others who migrated into modern day Hungary?)

[Leaning Right]

My grandparents were Hungarian. My ancestors had nothing to do with those nasty Huns!

There is little evidence that Hungarians are actually related to the Huns. However, some Hungarians like to think so. It’s a kind of misplaced pride, I guess.

[shotgun]

I usually just shot 1-1/8oz #6. If it was really windy 1-5/8 oz #6.

I haven’t bird hunted in 20 years since my last bird dog passed. We would come across the Huns on the edges of the big wheat fields.

[BenLurkin]

Related (sort of)

[JesusIsLord]

Kaiser Wilhelm to the German troops dispatched to deal with the Boxer Rebellion

It's somewhat ironic that the British and other WW2 allies referred to the German military as the "Hun".

[Verginius Rufus]

The Hungarian or Magyar language is Finno-Ugric, distantly related to Finnish and Estonian and more closely related to some minor languages of western Siberia. There doesn't seem to be much known about the language of the Huns but since they originated near China (probably they are identical with the Xiong-nu of ancient Chinese records), their language could be related to Turkish, Mongolian, or Manchu, but in any case probably not in the same language family as Hungarian.

When the Magyars invaded the Pannonian plain (895) they seem to have absorbed a lot of the earlier population living there so their modern DNA isn't too different from neighboring ethnic groups.