“Anonymus, the unknown author of the Gesta Hungarorum – who wrote his ‘historical romance’ around 1200 or 1210 – states that Álmos descended “’rom the line’ of Attila the Hun. A late 13th-century chronicler, Simon of Kéza wrote that Álmos was ‘of the Turul kindred.’ He also wrote of Attila the Hun's banner, which bore ‘the image of the bird the Hungarians call turul’ – identified as either a gyrfalcon or a hawk. A bird has an important role in the legend about Álmos's birth, which was preserved both by the Gesta Hungarorum and by the Illuminated Chronicle. The legend says that Álmos's mother, already pregnant with him, dreamed of a bird of prey ‘which had the likeness of a hawk’ impregnating her. Historians Gyula Kristó and Victor Spinei wrote that this story, which has close analogies in Turkic folklore, initially narrated the origin of Álmos's family from a totemic ancestor.”1920

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