Oebarsius Explained

Oebarsius or Aybars[1] [2] (died after 448) was a Hun nobleman, brother of Mundzuk and uncle of Bleda and Attila.

He was held in great honor, and sat next to Attila at royal banquets.[3] Oebarsius was probably never a king, and had no dominion of his own.[4] He was still alive in 448.[5]

Pritsak considered that the name is a transcription of Turkic Oibars, meaning "yellow leopard" (hence "lion").[6] According to Hyun Jin Kim, his name is connected to Turkic Aybars, meaning "leopard of the moon", an ongon in the Turkic mythology.[7] There are other opinions about the affinity of his name with Oebasus, the Latin form of an Iranian name.[8] His name, possibly as many other recorded by Priscus, might have been Grecisized.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Man . John . Attila The Hun . 2010 . Transworld . 9781409045366 . 156 . 26 October 2022.
  2. Book: Ankara Üniversitesi. Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi . Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi dergisi Volume 2 . 1943 . Türk Tarih Kurumu Matbaasi . 557 . 26 October 2022 . tr.
  3. Book: Kim . Hyun Jin . The Huns . 2015 . Taylor & Francis . 9781317340911 . 79 . 26 October 2022.
  4. Book: Wolfram . Herwig . Dunlap . Thomas . The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples . 2005 . University of California Press . 9780520244900 . 143 . 26 October 2022.
  5. Book: Bleeker . Ronald A. . Aspar and the Struggle for the Eastern Roman Empire, AD 421–71 . 2022 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 9781350279278 . 69 . 26 October 2022.
  6. Web site: Nişanyan . Sevan . Aybars - Nişanyan Names . Nişanyan Adlar . Sevan Nişanyan . 17 March 2023.
  7. Book: Kim . Hyun Jin . Rome and China: Points of Contact . 2021 . London . 9781315280714 . 139–40 . 17 March 2023.
  8. Book: Sabbatini Tumolesi . Patrizia . Gregori . Gian Luca . Orlandi . Silvia . Buonocore . Marco . Fora . Maurizio . Vismara . Cinzia . Caldelli . Maria Letizia . Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell'occidente romano Volume 6 . 1988 . Quasar . 9788871402659 . 354; 473 . 26 October 2022 . it.
  9. Book: Hodgkin . Thomas . Italy and Her Invaders: The Hunnish invasion. The Vandal invasion and the Herulian mutiny . 1892 . Clarendon Press . 74 .

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