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A leader of these people built himself a funeral pyre out of saddles in the middle of a battle which saw the death of Laudaricus. These people attacked Castra Constantias after the Byzantine Empire reneged on the Treaty of Margus. The Visigothic king Theodoric allied with Flavius Aetius’ (10[1])Romans to defeat these people at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. (10[1])The historian (10[1])Priscus (10[1])details how a leader (10[1])of these people died on his wedding night (10[1])of a nosebleed. (10[3])A leader of these people was convinced to end his invasion of Italy by Pope Leo the Great. (10[1])For 10 points, name these people led by the so-called “scourge of god,” (10[1]-5[1])Attila. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Huns [accept Attila the Hun]
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