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A leader of these people built himself a funeral pyre out of saddles in the middle (10[1])of a battle which saw the death of Laudaricus. These people attacked Castra Constantias after the Byzantine Empire reneged on the Treaty (10[1])of Margus. The Visigothic king Theodoric allied with (10[1])Flavius Aetius’ Romans to defeat these people (10[1])at the Battle of the (10[1])Catalaunian Plains. The historian Priscus details how a leader of these people died on his wedding night (-5[1])of a nosebleed. (10[1])A leader of these people was convinced to end his invasion of Italy (-5[1])by Pope Leo the Great. For 10 points, name these people led by the so-called “scourge of god,” Attila. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Huns [accept Attila the Hun]
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