Attila the Hun-is he Asian or Indo-European?

Many Germans effecitvly became Huns, politicaly and even culturaly to a degree as they adopted the lifestyle. But that doesn't make all Huns German. By Atilla's time they were a very Hetrogeneous bunch anyways.


Edited by Cywr - 26-Jul-2006 at 18:33

He, i just looked at teh clip 

Attila, the Hun plastic action figure You can order via internet

Edited by Raider - 27-Jul-2006 at 02:39

So German culture is Hunnic in Origin?

Originally posted by Kids From most of books I read, Atilla is identified with Oriental (Eastern Asian) characters (yellowish skin, short, small eyes, flat nose as according to Priscus's encounter with Attila).   But why then in Hungary Attila (as a national hero in Hungary) is depicted as European like figure as well as in recent American movie Attila???   http://www.sagarmatha.com/images/2005-HU-attila0001.jpg   Is is because Europeans can not accept the fact that Attila is non-white?

He goes down in history as one of the biggest of barbarians, and for one reason only, he kicked Roman arse. Like Gaiseric of around the same time, took Carthage from the Romans he did, and without a fight too, had Rome right by the balls, such a terrible Barbarian
Of course, Gaiseric was also an Arian, which is even worse than being a pagan Hun, barbarism to the max

Edit:
OK, so he didn't literaly kick their arses in a desicive battle sense, but he had them in a real tight spot, basicly ran a imperial scale extortion racket, with the mighty Romans virtualy powerless to do anything about it.


Edited by Cywr - 07-Aug-2006 at 16:15

Revisionism about whether Atilla was a 'barbarian' or not always brings a smile to my face, the man was a mass murderer, plain and simple - he must have personally raped thousands of women and killed thousands of men.

This is what the Roman historian Maximin wrote about Atila:

Pricus ;)
Maximin was no Historian.