322 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



The proper names, Balamir, Bleda, Iring, and Atzel, 

 the Lombardy Atzo, Ailfred, and other words, show 

 the Gothic element pervading usages and objects of 

 social convenience; and the courts of their kings, if 

 the old Burgundian (Frankish) legends may be credit- 

 ed, were as hospitable, as polished, and as splendid, as 

 those of the Greek and Latin sovereigns of that time. 

 The Huns subjected or associated the Haiatili, white 

 Huns, Heph-tal of the Armenians, a partial kindred, 

 with the Yuchi and Sacai, who came from beyond 

 the Oxus, and were seated in Meweram and Kha- 

 warism, with the capital Gogo, probably Kerkeng. 

 They invaded Afghanistan, Scinde, and Persia, in 428 ; 

 but driven back by Baharam-Ghor, were extended on 

 the north of the Caspian ; but, if the conjecture of 

 Professor Wilson be admitted, they were still power- 

 ful east of the Indus, since they took and destroyed 

 the vast city of Valhabi, in Gujrat, in the year 524 of 



bling upon the names Atzel, Attel, Attalus, carried to the 

 Hebrew ^*nx (Atzail), a wandering goat ; hence in Ara- 

 bic, Azalin, Satan. Attila's profile on a coin is shown, 

 with lengthened features, a pair of wings at the shoulders, 

 and his private symbol }$( occurs beneath the figure of a horse 

 on the reverse, so much in the manner of Hindoo Bactrian 

 art, that there can be little doubt of its authenticity. He 

 died in 453. A coin, given for one of Attila, or Ath-tila, 

 king of Sweden, circa 548, is more properly applied to 

 the Hunnic sovereign ; for he is figured on horseback, car- 

 rying in his hand the trident or tripula, a real Bactrian 

 weapon ; yet there he is styled Gauta og Suethiot Konpr. 

 See Genswolff runa Kefii ; also profiles of Hyatili princes 

 among coins in Wilson's Aria Antiqua. 



