Istvánovits Eszter (szerk.): A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2013)
A 2010. október 11-14. között Nyíregyházán és Szatmárnémetiben megtartott Vándorló és letelepült barbárok a kárpáti régióban és a szomszédos területeken (I-V. század) Új leletek, új értelmezések című nemzetközi régészeti konferencia anyagai - Marcin Biborski - Piotr Kaczanowski: Mágikus kardcsüngők
Piotr Kaczanowski — Judyta Rodziriska-Nowak significant increase of tributes paid to the Huns by the East Roman Empire only after Roman defeats in the 440’s. The question remains open if the Priscus’ mention of Attila ruling the lands ‘as far as the islands on the Ocean’ truly reflects the range of his authority that would reach to the southern coasts of the Baltic Sea. It has been suggested that this fragment from Priscus does not correspond with the real borders of Hun-controlled territory, and the expression was used to emphasise that the reign of Attila reached the limits of the known world (Altheim-Haussig 1958. 35). On the other hand, some historians accept this information as a proof that the power of the Huns reached the Southern Baltic coast (Lowmianski 1963. 270ff). Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the Hunnic raids could have encompassed the northern parts of Poland. However, the picture of the Early Migration Period settlement in the Oder and Vistula basins suggests that the Huns were interested in gaining control over new areas mainly in the most densely populated regions, which presented adequate economic potential. In the period discussed, Western Lesser Poland and the Otawa-Bystrzyca region in Lower Silesia were such regions.3 Translated by Piotr M. Godlewski References Aberg 1936. Niels Aberg: Till belysande av det gotiska kulturinslaget i Mellaneuropa och Skandinavien. [Zur Beleuchtung des gotischen Kultureinschlag in Mitteleuropa und Skandinavien.] Fornvännen 31.1936. 264-275. Altheim 1975. Franz Altheim: Geschichte der Hunnen. Band 4. De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1975. Altheim—Haussig 1958. Franz Altheim - Hans Wilhelm Haussig: Die Hunnen in Osteuropa. Ein Forschungsbericht. B. Grimm Verl, für Kunst und Wiss. Baden-Baden 1958. Anke 2007. Bodo Anke: Zur Hunnische Geschichte nach 375. In: Attila und die Hunnen. 39-46. Attila und die Hunnen 2007. Attila und die Hunnen. Hrsg. Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007. Baranowski 1973. Tadeusz Baranowski: Rzqd konski z wodzami lancuchowymi na terenie Europy Srodkowej w okresie wptywów rzymskich. [Das Zaumzeug mit Zügelketten im Gebiet Mitteleuropas in der Zeit der römischen Einflüsse.] Archeológia Polski 18: 2. 1973. 391^177. 3 After finishing this paper the authors learned of the article by T. Gralak (2010) It is difficult to regard this work as a new, important contribution to the issues discussed in our paper. Gralak’s studies are based, among other things, on false data, such as the information about the occurrence of ‘mass graves discovered in caves’ on the Lesser Poland/Silesia border (Gralak 2010. 81), or on an interpretation of the connections between Polish finds and other cultural areas which is discordant with the meaning of the archaeological sources to which he refers. These remarks concern, among other things, the Dobrodzien Group and the cemetery at Zemiki Wielkie. These are not the only examples when the hypotheses proposed by T. Gralak and concerning archaeological sources are made to fit the assumptions accepted a priori by the author. 444
