Necklace of a Sciri princess, with moons and hearts, 5th C. CE
"And so the bravest nations tore themselves to pieces". (Jordanes, Getica).
The fall of the Scirians: The Sciri were one of the people's that the Hun's conquered, they appear to have been an East Germanic people. Their name meant "pure". They were very numerous and the Huns allowed them to live together near the capital of the Hunnic Empire in the Carpathian Basin. Scirians captured by the Romans were largely deported from Europe and segregated from other Sciri so they couldn't interact together.
According to the Roman lawyer, Sozomen: "The authorities were of the opinion that, if allowed to remain together, they [the Sciri] might revolt. Some of them were, therefore, sold at a low price, while others were given away as slaves for presents on the condition that they should never be permitted into Constantinople or anywhere in Europe, but be separated by the sea from the places familiar to them. Of these a number were left unsold, and they were ordered to settle in different places. Sozomen had seen many in Bithynia, near Mount Olympus, living apart from one another and cultivating the hills and valleys of that region." (The world of the Huns; studies in their history and culture by Maenchen-Helfen, Otto).
After the death of Attila they revolted against the Huns and founded their own state. Their independence from the Huns ended up being their undoing, within ten years they were destroyed by the Ostrogoths. They offered themselves up to the same Romans who put them on segregated plantations. After the war with the Ostrogoths, Jordanes reports "there remained of all the race of the Sciri only a few who bore the name". One remnant of the Sciri, the Angisciri, seems to have remained loyal to the Huns and moved with them. Thus they had their most prominent days under the Huns and met their end at the hands of the Romans and the Arian Goths.
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| Necklace of a Sciri princess, with moons and hearts, 5th C. CE. Hungarian National Museum. Photo by Egon Gottl. |
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