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Attila the Hun and King Arthur: A Question of Affinities

Author(s) -

Florence H. Ridley

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

florilegium

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2369-7180

pISSN - 0709-5201

DOI - 10.3138/flor.11.008

Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , hero , civilization , christianity , affinities , history , art , literature , archaeology , biology , geometry , mathematics , biochemistry

My topic today is the influence of the character and career of Attila the Hun upon those of King Arthur. The very suggestion of such influence may be surprising, not to say startling, to most of my audience, to most of whom Arthur is the Flower of Christian Kings. For if, in the minds and hearts of Hungarians Attila is "Uncle Etzel," a beneficent national hero, to the English, Americans, and Canadians, he is something else again: an embodiment of demonic darkness who laid waste the centres of civilization in France, Germany, and Italy, and threatened to extinguish the light of Christianity just as it was dawning.

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