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Show ATTILA, "SCOURGE OF GOD" Mighty Leader of the Hun. a. H Ha. Been Pictured by Eminent French Hlaxorlan. The great French historian, Mlche-tet, Mlche-tet, has graphically described Attila, the mighty Hun, who in the fifth century cen-tury met a defeat which curbed his progress and threw him and his horde back to eastern Eucppe. His true oriental ori-ental name, a name which is retained unchanged in the German tongue, was Etzel, which signified a vast and mighty thing, a mountain, a river, particularly par-ticularly that immense river, the Volga, Vol-ga, Priscus, an author of the fifth century, who saw Attila face to face, describes him, says Micheelt, as "stern and grave, short, thick set and Btrongly built, flat-nosed, his broad face pierced with two fiery holes." Continuing he says: "After all, what would this Tartar have gained by conquering con-quering the Roman empire? He would have felt himself stifled in those walled cities and palaces of marble. Far better he loved his wooden village, vil-lage, all painted and tapestried, with its thousand kiosks of many colors and all around it the green meadows of the Danube. Though an enemy to Germany, Ger-many, he made use of it. His ally was the enemy of the Germans, Genseric, the Wend, who was settled in Africa. He called Attila into Gaul against the Goths of Toulouse, Attila's passage was marked by the ruin of Metz and of a great number of towns. The multitude mul-titude of legends relating to this period per-iod may afford some idea of the impression im-pression which that terrible event left on the memory of nations." |