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ATTILA. Attilla the Hun, fl. fifth century A.D., conqueror of most of western Europe, overran the western Roman Empire with his troops. In A.D. 453 he died of a stroke on his wedding night after he had gone to bed drunk (The Gothic History XLIX).

Attila represents drunken intemperance, PardT 579-582.

The name appears medially, PardT 579.

Jordanes, The Gothic History, trans. C.C. Mierow, 123.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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