Attila the Hun ("Here Comes the Rain Again" by Eurythmics)

Attila- the original rockstar- fur, women, drunkenness...croaking from a nose bleed after a night of excess. Huns are fun - when you sing about them instead of getting ransacked and pillaged by them. Who knew you could die from a nose bleed? Riiiiiight. Those Huns!

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[MrFileshare]

A very beautiful, fateful and haunting song! Compared with the original lyrics it kind of implies the Huns are like a force of nature, like pouring rain, there's nothing you can do to escape them, they are your destiny. I imagine that's exactly how people felt at the time.

[Alexey Zangief]

ATTILA !!!

HUNS with you !!!

[P.M. Laberge]

I don't know how Mr H invoked that incredible effect of you "blurring in and out". I don't know what the historical tie-in is... Is it that Attila was, and is no more?

[MultiGeorgius]

OMG! l just love it<33

[aronthehun]

No, not really, the two didn't even originate from the same geographical area. The order is

1. Attila and his Huns - in roughly the 430's AD

2. Arpad and his seven tribes or "Magyars" - arrive in the Carpathian Baisn roughly in 895 AD (known as "Honfoglalás")

3. Mongols - invade Europe in the 13th century, though Genghis was dead by then. Hungary was already established as a Western kingdom and actually fought the Mongols at the battle of Mohi (where the Hungarian army was crushed).

[aronthehun]

Lol no I didn't mean we're nomadic to this day, but that we originally were. Anyway the Huns are not one of the seven tribes, they themselves were a huge people (consisting not only from Huns but other conquered peoples) who invaded Europe hundreds of years before the seven Magyar tribes came around. I'm not saying there's no relation but Huns are definitely more than a simple offshoot of the Magyars (or modern day Hungarians if you will).

[NachosFairy]

Um, you are definitely wrong. Which historians have told you this?

[NachosFairy]

Wait- before the Mongols? My understanding is that the Huns were a tribe within the Mongolian empire. No?

[NachosFairy]

They didn't, you are right. It was the Hungarians (Magyars) who did, because they were a culmination of several Germanic peoples, including Huns and at some point as well Jassars (see: Jaszbereny).

[NachosFairy]

Jo napot, Aron. You would say that Hungarians are nomadic tribe still? But did we not have several tribes of Magyars, under one umbrella? Did we not cease to be nomadic once we had found the foretold promised land, as in the Tale of the White Stag?

[NachosFairy]

The Ottomans ruled Hungary a long time, intermarriages occurred, and their influence is still seen.

[NachosFairy]

I disagree with you. We should recognise the proper names of peoples, as well as their distinct traditions, to honour them. We are all humans, but ignoring the individual things that give our cultures and histories beauty is a disservice.