What Diesise (i kno i spelled that wrong!) or Virus did Atila the Hun die of?
Attila died in the early months of 453. The conventional account, from Priscus, says that at a feast celebrating his latest marriage to the beautiful and young Ildico (if uncorrupted, the name suggests a Gothic origin)[9] he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor. An alternative theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking. Another story of his death, first recorded 80 years after the fact by the Roman chronicler Count Marcellinus, reports that “Attila, King of the Huns and ravager of the provinces of Europe, was pierced by the hand and blade of his wife.”[10] The Volsunga saga and the Poetic Edda also claim that King Atli (Attila) died at the hands of his wife, Gudrun.[11] Most scholars reject these accounts as no more than romantic fables, preferring instead the version given by Attila’s contemporary Priscus. The “official” account by Priscus, however, has recently come under renewed scrutiny by Michael A. Babcock.[12] Based on detailed p
