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Scandinavia and the huns Scandinavia and the huns a source-critical approach to an old question N? sman Ulf Fornv? nnen s - ill http kulturarvsdata se raa fornvannen html Ing? r i samla raa se CDebatt Scandinavia and the Huns A source-critical approach to

Scandinavia and the huns a source-critical approach to an old question N? sman Ulf Fornv? nnen s - ill http kulturarvsdata se raa fornvannen html Ing? r i samla raa se CDebatt Scandinavia and the Huns A source-critical approach to an old question That the Huns played a signi ?cant role in ? the Transformation of the Roman World ? is not controversial A number of monographs have been devoted to the fascinating history of this nomadic people Thompson Maenchen- Helfen Germanen Hunnen und Awaren Bóna Anke ? ?ukin et al Anke Externbrink In syntheses of the Iron Age in Scandinavia the Huns take their proper place at the end of the Roman Iron Age as those who triggered the Migration Period Br? ndsted p f f Stenberger p ? Magnus Myhre p ? Burenhult p f Solbjerg pp Jensen p ? In my own doctoral thesis I wrote a chapter on ??The import of glass vessels to Scandinavia in the Hunnic period c ?? ? p f There I concluded that the Huns ? conquest of south-eastern Europe did not sever communications between Scandinavia and the Danubian basin A new dimension to Hunnic in uence in Scandinavia was presented by Charlotte Fabech in her interpretation of the S? sdala ?nds and others as evidence of Hunnic in uence on funerary rituals in south Sweden But it has to be remembered that those ?nds only cover one generation and that they are only found in a small area The lasting e ?ects of the Hunnic impact on Scandinavia were indirect i e the consequences of the fall of the West Roman empire the demographic changes in Eastern Europe and the appearance of the so-called successor states Heather Ward-Perkins It was thus with great interest and expectation that I red a paper by Lotte Hedeager a in which she puts forward a new hypothesis about ??Scandinavia and the Huns ? As always it is a well written and interesting paper ?lled with new ideas and interpretations In the introduction she makes elegant use of the concepts of the Annales School événements la longue durée et conjunctures But it is an exaggeration to say that Scandinavian archaeologists have neglected Hunnic elements in the North Hedeager b As I will demonstrate in the following Hunnic elements are not easy to ?nd The Baltic Islands and the Huns Hedeager is convinced that ??the Huns ? supremacy included parts of Scandinavia ? s This conclusion is based on a quote from a conversation between the West Roman ambassador Romulus and the East Roman envoy Priscus Romulus said that ?? Attila ruled even the islands of the Ocean ? Priscus fr see Doblhofer Now this is not supported by any other evidence So one can simply reject it as too uncertain or accept it as it is Romulus probably believed what he said So have later scholars and some include the Baltic islands in the realm of Attila But it is sound scholarly procedure to be