@lmriviere: DARK HISTORY: Attila the Hun—the real life ‘Witch’ King⚔️🏹💀 Meet Attila: the real life ‘sorcerer’ king and all-around menace who t3rr0rized the Roman Empire, and helped inspire several of our favorite literary villains. #darkhistory #LearnonTikTokContest #learnhistoryontiktok #historytok #attila *Before the 'well, actually' crowd claims Attila has nothing to do with Middle-earth; Tolkien adapted the Volsunga Saga for his own poetry. In those Norse myths, the real Attila is reimagined as King Atli: a brutal, gold-hungry sorcerer. This legend is the exact type of dark mythology Tolkien mined to build the conquerors of Middle-earth, so, hush up😉🖤

ThinkyTools :

Nandor the Relentless

KCQueen :

These are some of the most disgusting monsters that ever existed. We know nothing of this kind of brutality today.

Csilla Decsiová :

I’m Hungarian, so he’s part of our history, but we were taught the fairy-tale version of it 😅 He’s pretty much idolized in Hungary.

teo😫 :

Count dracula is actually inspired by Vlad the Impaler of wallachia

drlmfr :

yay my ancestor x (im hungarian)

Billy :

let's get down to business to defeat the Huns...

Csenge Gál :

woww i need more of HUNgarian history! ✨✨

Devin :

“Turns out history is a horror story, that authors have been rewriting, for centuries” - beautifully put! 🥺🥰

bertalan :

alep_bet :

this is terrible misinformation; he was actually really nice, hence the ‘hun’ epithet… (jk 😭)

Athe :

wanheda!

Pina Senaynis :

Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, & Tamerlane are three dudes that get plenty of shoutouts and not nearly enough sustained attention. This is great! More, please!

Elle in London :

The myth in Hungary is that not just servants but everyone was unalived who attended the funeral. His coffin/tomb is supposed to be in Hungary along the Danube, still hasn’t been found

Jay-Quillen :

it may just be me, but I thought khal drogo was based on the Mongols and genghis khan

Dominics Denim :

Let's get down to business...to defeat...the Huns.

justglassin91 :

I cant imagine how terrifying that would have been to those people. how they're stomachs must have dropped at the thundering of the hooves in the distance 😬

@bourbon-professor :

The Huns are responsible for much of western civilization. He drove all the cultures from the east, west

Mikey Myers🇮🇶🦥 :

The romans literally thought this guy was sent my god to make them pay for their sins.."The scourge of god"

Slow Hand Robotic Genius :

Always love your videos but this one was just 🤌✨

Roano :

imagine the triple coffin is not out of respect, but fear of him coming back actually.( probably shamanic) Gold and Silber both told to have properties of purification and divine/holy . Gold to confine the evil spirit, silber to purify the residual evil presence and iron to hold it together and bind the body too . kinda tickles the brain that way doesn't it ?

Roma :

I thought knowing about Atilla and Atilla’s army is common knowledge. I’m Persian, and I can say with confidence I was familiar with him and the history of what he represented as a 10 year old 😅