Editing Attila (section)

=== Attila in Germanic heroic legend ===
Some histories and chronicles describe Attila as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three Norse texts: ''[[Atlakviða]]'',{{r|Atlakvitha }} ''[[Volsunga saga]]'',{{r|Volsunga }} and ''[[Atlamál]]''.{{r|Atlakvitha }} The ''Polish Chronicle'' represents Attila's name as ''Aquila''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Early christianity in central and east Europe: Volume 1 of Christianity in east central Europe and its relations with the west and the east|last=Urbańczyk|first=Przemysław|publisher=Instytut Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej|year=1997|isbn=978-83-86951-33-8|page=200}}</ref>

[[Frutolf of Michelsberg]] and [[Otto of Freising]] pointed out that some songs as "vulgar fables" and made [[Theoderic the Great]], Attila and [[Ermanaric]] contemporaries, when any reader of Jordanes knew that [[anachronism|this was not the case]].{{r|Innes}} This refers to the so-called historical poems about [[Dietrich von Bern]] (Theoderic), in which Etzel (German for Attila) is Dietrich's refuge in exile from his wicked uncle Ermenrich (Ermanaric). Etzel is most prominent in the poems ''[[Dietrichs Flucht]]'' and the ''[[Rabenschlacht]]''. Etzel also appears as [[Kriemhild]]'s second noble husband in the ''[[Nibelungenlied]]'', in which Kriemhild causes the destruction of both the Hunnish kingdom and that of her Burgundian relatives.