<P> In the German "Saga of Tidreck of Bern", its written versions beginning from the 13th century, the Huns are called Frisians . Frisia was often called Hunaland in the Middle Ages . </P> <P> Widsith, possibly one of the oldest pieces of English literature to survive to the present day, lists a number of ancient kings of tribes sorted according to their popularity and impact; Attila, King of the Huns, comes first, followed immediately by Eormanric of the Ostrogoths . Widsith may be by far the oldest extant work that tells of the Battle of the Goths and Huns, also recounted in later Scandinavian works such as the Hervarar saga; in Widsith, however, the battle's details are presented as "sober historical facts" rather than as the "heroic stories" of later works . The name Attila, rendered in Old English as Ætla, was a given name in use in Anglo - Saxon England (ex . Bishop Ætla of Dorchester) and its use in England at the time may have been connected to the heroic kings legend represented in works like Widsith, though historian Otto J. Maenchen - Helfen doubts the use of the name by the Anglo - Saxons had anything to do with the Huns, and argues it was more likely to be based directly on the name's Germanic origin meaning "little father". </P> <P> The Hungarians (Magyars) in particular lay claim to Hunnic heritage . Although Magyar tribes only began to settle in the geographical area of present - day Hungary in the very end of the 9th century, some 426 years after the breakup of Attila's Hunnic Empire, Hungarian prehistory includes Magyar origin myths . There is also a medieval legend of a lineage that makes Attila the sixth - generation ancestor of Árpád conqueror of the modern Pannonian basin, through Attila's son Csaba, his son Ed, his son Ügyek, his son Előd, his son Álmos . Álmos was ruler of the Magyars and the father of Arpad The national anthem of Hungary describes the Hungarians as "blood of Bendegúz"' (the medieval and modern Hungarian version of Mundzuk, Attila's father). Attila's brother, Bleda, is called Buda in modern Hungarian and some medieval chronicles and literary works attribute the name of the city of Buda to him . </P> <P> There is a legend among the Székely people that claims that after the death of Attila, in a battle called the Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape and settle in a place called "Csigle - mező" (today Transylvania) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler (Székely). According to the Hungarian scholar Egyed, the Székelys speak the Hungarian language "without any trace of a Turkic substratum", indicating that they did not have a language shift during their history, and proposes that the Székelys were descended from privileged Hungarian groups . They therefore could not have been related to the Huns, who most likely spoke an Oghur Turkic dialect . </P>

Who were the huns and where did they come from