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The Gesta Hungarorum of the Anonymous Notary of King Béla is the oldest extant chronicle of the history of the Hungarians. It remains ‘the most famous, the most obscure, the most exasperating and most misleading of all the early Hungarian texts.’1 Purporting to be an account of the background, circumstances and immediate
Anonymus did not mention the opponents of the conquering Hungarians known from sources written around 900, but he wrote of the Hungarians' fight against rulers unknown from other sources. According to a scholarly theory, he used place names when naming the opponents of the Hungarians.
Little is known about him, but his latinized name began with P, as he referred to himself as "P. dictus magister". Anonymus is famous for his work Gesta Hungarorum ("The Deeds of the Hungarians"), written in Medieval Latin around 1200.
At the end of the twelfth century, an anonymous writer sat down to fulfil a promise he had made to his friend, an individual addressed only as ‘the venerable N’, to establish the genealogy of the kings of Hungary and of their noblemen: how the seven leading persons, who are called the Hetumoger,
Aug 23, 2014 · The Magyar Raids: Fact and Fable. By Christopher Szabo. Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol.4:4 (2012) Introduction: There is no consensus on the exact starting date of the military campaigns undertaken by the Hetumoger (“Seven Magyar”) tribal confederation in the ninth and tenth centuries.
Sep 17, 2023 · Despite all the uncertainties, the chronicle written by Master P., or as he is known to many because of the obscurity of his person since its discovery, Anonymus, has been one of the most important documents of the search for Hungarian historical consciousness and identity.
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The seven Hungarian (Magyar) tribes called 'Hetumoger' (Seven Hungarians) had been joined by a smaller foreign group, the so-called Qavars or Qabars before the conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the end of the ninth century.
