Social:Laudaricus

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Laudaricus was a prominent Hunnic chieftain. The Chronica Gallica of 511 under the year 451 noted him as Attila's blood relative (Latin: Cognatus Attilae), who died at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 AD.[1][2] M. Schönfeld considered the name to be of Germanic origin, *Lauda reiks (possibly "famous king"; compare Ludwig).[1][2] Omeljan Pritsak proposed possible Gothicization and correction of the name by the chronicler from Turkic *Valda > Velda (< *Belda > Bleda).[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 388.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pritsak 1982, p. 445.
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