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Introduction: the Huns (1–12)

A third part of the world is called Europe, brothers:
By customs, tongues and name dividing various peoples,
Then separating them by their religious practice.
Among them lived the people of Pannonia,
Whom we are generally accustomed to call Huns. 5
This brave folk flourished both by courage and by arms;
Subduing not just those lands which surrounded theirs,
They had extended even to the seashore’s limits;
They granted pacts to suppliants, but crushed resisters.
They held sway, it is said, more than a thousand years. 10
At one time King Attila ruled that realm, intent
Upon renewing for himself their ancient triumphs.

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Note: this English text is identical to that found in Waltharius and Ruodlieb, edited and translated by Dennis M. Kratz. The Garland library of medieval literature, Series A, vol. 14. New York: Garland Pub., 1984.