Several scholars have in the past hypothesized a northward movement by Hunnic contingents which ultimately reached Scandinavia on the basis of archaeological and philological evidence, an event which should be detectable in both ancient and modern DNA if true. In the book, The Huns and their allies in Scandinavia, the author Karl O. Högström utilizes an interdisciplinary approach centered around genomics to trace a westward migration by the Huns from Inner Asia via southeastern Europe to Scandinavia. The significance and implications of this become clear when looking at the philological evidence which suggests that the Huns had a formative and lasting impact on the development of the peoples, cultures and beliefs in Scandinavia during the Late Iron Age.
Table of Content
Glossary
Figures
Foreword by Borbála Obrusánszky
Preface
Part 1: The Huns in Scandinavia
Introduction
The Xiongnu & the Huns
Genomic evidence
Scythian allies?
Textual evidence
Archaeological evidence
The Huns & their allies
Didrikssagan
The Odinic myths
Atlakviða- The lay of Atli
Hun- place names
Conclusion
Part 2: The womb of nations
Scania & the Scanian lands
Proto-Germanic origins
An ancient cosmology
The Langobards
The Hunnic connection
The Heaðobards
Scedenigge & Scedelandum
Beowulf & the Huns
Conclusion
Part 3: The eagle & the first shaman
Reaching for the sky
A North Eurasian cosmology
Odin’s origins
Paradigm exposed
The Hunnic substrate
The Siberian stag-horse
The Odinic package
The Okunev substrate
Conclusion
Postface
Bibliography
About the author
Borbála Obrusánszky Ph D is the Hungarian ambassador in Mongolia and also a historian who focuses her research on the Xiongnu and the Huns.
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