A L5thC coin of the Alachon Huns, who ruled in Afghanistan; note the cranial deformation: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/s/silver_dinar_of_the_alchon_hun.aspx …pic.twitter.com/SMnpX9teL8
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For those who've not read, here's Hedeager's article arguing for Huns in Scand: http://www.academia.edu/5352394/Scandinavia_and_the_Huns_an_Interdisciplinary_Approach_to_the_Migration_Era … Book version:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3XCrAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=html_text …
Fwiw, it's def interesting, but convincing? & are those earrings def 5thC Hunnic, as if so, there's at least 1 poss example from Britain...
@caitlinrgreen I'll name that thought in one!! PICTS!
@Tweets2CV lol! Picts as Huns?!?!
@caitlinrgreen Well Bede said they came in 3 ships from Scythia! Tho. Oppenheimer relates this to a Norse angle!
@caitlinrgreen many thinks to deal with Huns, forgetting local people.
Still, the question is very interesting. :)
@Cendrais oh definitely! Just trying to decide if the evidence is strong enough to bear weight of her conclusions though! :)
@caitlinrgreen For Scandia, O. Maenchen-Helfen spoke of the issue (I think), but his conclusions were rather vague.
@Cendrais Hedeager goes much further, but seems v controversial :-/
@caitlinrgreen In France, there are same problems. When 'oriental" furnitures were found (skulls, weapons, jewelry) -
@caitlinrgreen But i think that finding "hunnish" people is an other thing (like in History).
@caitlinrgreen None. But his statements with material culture asks me. Surely, the "confederation" has influenced southern Scandinavia.
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