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From: RBodine996 < >
Subject: Re: Attila the Hun
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:40:16 -0500
According to the biography Attila, King of the Huns - The Man and the
Myth,
by Patrick Howarth, recently reprinted by Barnes and Noble, Attila was
married to a number of wives and had several named sons, including:
Ellak, his eldest son by a wife named Arykan, was killed in 454/5 in a
battle
fought in Pannonia near a river named Nedao against a combined force of
Gepids and allied tribes all under the command of Ardaric, king of the
Gepids.
Dengizik was killed in 469 fighting against a Byzantine force and his
skull
was displayed in Constantinope in revenge for the damage inflicted by his
father.
Ernak, his youngest son, survived his brothers, asked for and received
land
from Emperor Leo I, and settled with his people in the Dobruja area
between
the Danube and the Black Sea in the eastern part of modern Roumania.
There were other children--by his principal wife, Kreka, he had three
sons,
possibly one or two of the above.
Ronny Bodine
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