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Gizur challenges the Huns

Gizur was the foster-father of Heidrek, who made a coup-d'état in Reidgotaland, the land of the Goths (see Oium and the Chernyakhov culture). Reidgotaland, Hreidgotaland or Hreiðgotaland was a land in Scandinavian mythology. ... Invasion of the Goths: a late 19th century painting by O. Fritsche portrays the Goths as cavalrymen. ... Oium (from Aujom, meaning in the waterlands in Gothic) was according to Jordanes, a name for Scythia, where the Goths settled after leaving Gothiscandza. ... The Chernyakhov culture (3rd century - 5th century) was a material culture, the distribution of which corresponded roughly to the Ukraine and parts of Belarus. ...

When Heidrek is dead, Gizur arrives to the Goth capital Arheimar on the Dniepr (Danpar) to pay homage to his foster-son. Heidrek's son Angantyr, who is the new king of the Goths, holds a great banquet in the honour of his father. Then Heidrek's illegitimate son Hlöd, who has grown up among the Huns arrives to claim his rightful inheritance. Angantyr offers a great many riches and a third of the Goth kingdom, but before Hlöd can answer, Gizur reminds Angantyr that Hlöd is but a bastard son, who does not deserve such riches. Arheimar was the capital of the Goths according to the Hervarar saga. ... The Dnieper River (Belarusian: Дняпро/Dnyapro; Russian: Днепр/Dnepr; Ukrainian: Днiпро/Dnipro; Polish: Dniepr; Latin: Borysthenes, Danaper) is a river (2290 km length) which flows from Russia through Belarus and then Ukraine. ... Hjorvard and Hjalmar propose to Ingeborg Angantyr was the name of three characters from the same line in Norse mythology, and who appear in Hervarar saga, the Poetic Edda (the Waking of Angantyr and the Battle of the Goths and Huns) and in Gesta Danorum. ... Many historians consider the Huns (meaning person in Mongolian language) the first Mongolian and Turkic people mentioned in European history. ...

This causes an invasion of the Hunnish Horde (ca 350 000 men), and prospects look grim. Gizur supports Angantyr and helps him fight the Horde, presumably with his own Geatish forces. Many historians consider the Huns (meaning person in Mongolian language) the first Turkic people mentioned in European history. ...

Since he helped the Goths, Hlöd mockingly calls the king the Grýtingaliði, an Ostrogoth (Greutungi) warrior and Angantyr's man: This article deals with the continental Ostrogoths. ...

During the battle, the old Gizur slays the Hun king Humli, but Hlöd arrives and splits Gizur in two with one slash of his sword.