Scourge with an urge Peter Jones on the destructive talents of Attila and his Huns From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 20, 2005| Author: By PETER JONES | Copyright 2005 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

TO CHRISTIANS, the terrifying warrior Attila was known as ``flagellum Dei'', ``the scourge of God''. Raiding from his base in southern Hungary over much of the Roman empire - East and West - until his unexpected death in AD 453, Attila and his Huns were seen as the agents of divine retribution for moral backsliding.

Germanic tribes such as the Goths, however, who were for a time part of Attila's rickety north European ``empire'', saw him as a hero. From them Attila passed into Scandin...

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