Vithimiris was killed during a battle against the Alans and Huns in 376.

In the Hervarar saga, the Goths make first contact with the bow-wielding Huns and meet them in an epic battle on the plains of the Danube.

Huns in battle with the Alans, by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger

This is deduced by historians from the fact that Athanaric would later lead the Thervingi in battle against the Huns in 376.

The history of Brynhildr includes fratricide, a long battle between brothers, and dealings with the Huns.

* Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, or the Battle of Châlons, a 451 battle between the Huns under Atilla and the forces of the Roman general Flavius Aetius

Balash (), ( in the Greek authors, Balas ; the later form of the name Vologases ), the eighteenth Sassanid King of Persia in 484 – 488, was the brother and successor of Peroz I of Persia ( 457 – 484 ), who had died in a battle against the Hephthalites ( White Huns ) who invaded Persia from the east.

The raiders had conquered Serdica, and Anthemius besieged the city until the starved Huns decided to accept open battle ; despite the treachery of his cavalry commander ( a Hun ), Anthemius led his infantry to victory, and when Hormidac offered surrender Anthemius asked for the deserter to be given to him.

Here he lived until 451, when the Huns, led by Attila, invaded the Western Roman Empire ; Avitus persuaded Theodoric into an alliance with Rome, and the combined forces of Theodoric and Aetius defeated Attila in the Battle of Châlons ; Theodoric died in the battle.

The battle was a strategic victory for the Romans, stopping the Huns ' attempt to conquer Roman Gaul.

He goes on to say that though the battle in 451 was " indecisive insofar as both sides sustained immense losses and neither was left master of the field, it had the effect of halting the Huns ' advance.

Huns are recorded as using lassos in battle to ensnare opponents prepared to defended themselves in hand-to-hand combat around AD370 < ref >.

Between his sons Angantyr and Hlod, there is a great battle about their father's heritage and Hlod is aided by the Huns.

Hervor dying after the battle with the Huns.

At the battle of Nadeo, the Huns ’ subjects, led by Gepid King Ardaric, defeated Attila's would-be successors.

* The Western Huns attacked with terrifying battle cries.

* 376, Invasion of the Huns, Hunnic war against Visigoths and Ostrogoths, Suicide of Gothic King Ermanaric, Gothic King Vithimer dies in battle.

* 451, Invasion of Gaul by the Huns with Frankish, Gothic and Burgundian mercenaries led by Attila the Hun, Sack of Trier, Attack on Metz, Siege of Orléans, Coalition of Romans, Franks and Visigoths led by General Aëtius stop the Huns in the Battle of Châlons, Visigothic King Theodoric I dies in battle.

* 454, East Germanic Gepids defeat the Huns in the Battle of Nedao, Hunnic King Ellac dies in battle, Assassination of Roman General Aëtius, Gepids establish a kingdom in Pannonia.

Many critics lump it into a category of so-called " battle pieces " along with Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Franz Liszt's Battle of the Huns: Charles Rosen writes that ' Beethoven's contribution lacks the serious pretentiousness or the incorporation of ideology of Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony, or of Berlioz ' Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, but it is only the less interesting for its modesty.

She was a shieldmaiden and was the commander of a Gothic fort facing Myrkviðr, and she would fall in battle against the Huns ( see Hlöd, Hlöðskviða ).

Then she told Ormar to ride and meet the Huns and challenge them to do battle in front of the southern gate.

They rode forthwith out of the fort with all their host against the Huns, and a great battle began between them.

After their setbacks against the Huns, Alaric was probably a child during the Goths ' mass migration across the Danube and their subsequent war with Rome.

The subject was apt for a papal state seeking clout, since it depicts the historical legend when the greatest of the popes Leo, with supernatural aid, deterred the Huns from looting Rome.

Captain Manning was heard to scream, " If any of those bastard Huns come up, lads, hit ' em with an oar!

Uldin, a prince of the Huns, appeared on the Danube about this time and advanced into Thrace, but he was deserted by many of his followers, who joined with the Romans in driving their king back north of the river.

Under pressure of the Huns, the chieftain Fritigern approached the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens in 376 with a portion of the Thervingi and asked to be allowed to settle with his people on the south bank of the Danube.

Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns, considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to investigating such a connection.

Since Joseph de Guignes in the 18th century, historians have associated the Huns who appeared on the borders of Europe in the 4th century with the Xiongnu who migrated out of the Mongolia region some three hundred years before.

Due to the conflict with Han China, the Northern branch of the Xiongnu had retreated north-westward ; their descendants may have migrated through Eurasia and consequently they may have some degree of cultural and genetic continuity with the Huns.

The Huns do not then appear to have been a single force with a single ruler.

The Huns returned to their lands with a vast train full of plunder.

Throughout their raids on the Eastern Roman Empire, the Huns had maintained good relations with the Western Empire, this was due in no small part to their friendship with Flavius Aetius, a powerful Roman general ( sometimes even referred to as the de facto ruler of the Western Empire ) who had spent some time with the Huns.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

Artificial cranial deformation was practiced by the Huns and sometimes by tribes with whom they influenced.

) A style that arrived in Europe with the Huns ( after centuries of use on the borders of China ), was stiffened by two laths on each siyah, and additionally reinforced on the grip by three laths, for a total of seven per bow.

The King of the Huns transfixing Saint Ursula with an arrow after she refused to marry him, in Caravaggio's 1610 " The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula ( Caravaggio ) | The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula ".

The Huns seem to " suddenly appear ", first mentioned during an attack on the Alans, who are generally connected to the River Don ( Tanais ).

The Huns crossed the Volga river and attacked the Alans, whom they subjugated.

After the Huns defeated the Alans, the Huns and Alans started plundering Greuthungic settlements.

During their brief diversion from the Eastern Roman Empire, the Huns appear to have threatened tribes further west, as evidenced by Radagaisus ' entering Italy at the end of 405 and the crossing of the Rhine into Gaul by Vandals, Sueves, and Alans in 406.

Uldin, the first Hun known by name, headed a group of Huns and Alans fighting against Radagaisus in defense of Italy.

Malkar is accredited with first leading the Huns into the Volga Delta where they found the Alans.

* The Greuthungi, led by Alatheus and Saphrax, displaced by the predations of the Huns and Alans, request asylum within the Roman Empire.

The region was conquered by the Ostrogoths in 455, and further exchanged hands between the Alans and Huns in the years to follow.

Theodosius is in command of an army including Goths, Huns and Alans.

In addition groups of Huns and Alans have also moved up to the river.

* The Goths ( possibly Greuthungi ) make an alliance with some of the Huns and Alans along the Danube, and entice them across the river.

This opens the passes allowing the Goths, Huns and Alans to break out into the lowlands of southern Thrace.

* Battle of the Tanais River: The Huns defeat the Alans near the Don, sending the remnants fleeing westward.

Between the first and ninth centuries, the Sarmatians, Huns, Alans, Avars, Bulgars, and Magyars passed through the Pontic steppe in their westward migrations.

* The Huns migrate east from the Volga into Europe, and subjugate the Alans and the Ostrogoths.

In the late 4th century, Vegetius conflates Alans and Huns in his military treatise — Hunnorum Alannorumque natio, the " nation of Huns and Alans " — and collocates Goths, Huns and Alans, exemplo Gothorum et Alannorum Hunnorumque.