![]() They sometimes fight by challenging their foes to single combat, but when they join battle they advance in packs, uttering their various war-cries. When they need to debate some important matter they conduct their conference in the same posture. Buying or selling, eating or drinking, are all done by day and night on horseback and they even bow forward over their beasts’ narrow necks to enjoy a deep and dreamy sleep. This description of the Huns, also from the pen of Ammianus Marcellinus, somewhat distorts what is fact and fiction about the Huns, but it does show the curiosity of the Roman people toward these soldiers: They are ill-fitted to fight on foot, and remain glued to their horses, hardy but ugly beasts, on which they sit like women to perform their everyday business. They brought with them a style of warfare not entirely unknown to either the barbarians or the Romans, although neither had seen it on such a large scale. These barbarians then crossed the river and attacked the Roman Empire. ![]() ![]() The Huns first appeared at the end of the fourth century when they attacked barbarian tribes living to the north and west of the Danube. Advertisement - What do we know of the Huns? ![]()
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