Luitpoldschlacht by Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder 1848
"Szabolcs de Vajay believes that the Hungarians (the Ungri of the Annales Bertiniani first crossed the Carpathiansin connection with Carloman's revolt, 861-863. He argues that Rastislav enticed them to join in his rebellion against Louis the German. This would explain, he thinks, why the Bulgars, enemies of the Magyars east of the Carpathians, entered the conflict as allies of Louis. Hincmar of Reims does seem to suggest that there was a connection by reporting that Louis launched an unsuccessful attack on the "Wends" before his realm was ravished by the Hungarians. While this hypothesis cannot be proved, a well-known characteristic of steppe nomads was their tendency to involve themselves in the conflicts of sedentary neighbors as confederates or mercenaries. Moreover, there is a letter (dated c. 900) from Archbishop Theotmar of Salzburg to Pope John IX in which he accuses the Moravians of allying frequently with the heathen Hungarians.
The Hungarians next appear in a Carolingian source under the year 881. In this case it is the Annales Iuvavenses maximi, a narrative that Ernst Klebel discovered in the 1920s. It reports that there was a solar eclipse that was followed by "the first war with the Hungarians around Vienna (ad Vieniam)."
-Charles R. Bowlus. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The struggle for the Middle Danube
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Charles R. Bowlus. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The struggle for the Middle Danube
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