Edeko
By the name Edeko (with various spellings: Edeco, Edeko, Edekon, Edicon, Ediko, Edica, Ethico) are considered three contemporaneous historical figures,[1] whom many scholars identify as one:
- A prominent Hun, who served as both Eastern Roman Empire, thus becoming part of Attila's circle of favorite advisors, so much so that he put him in charge of a diplomatic mission in Constantinople, where the court treasurer, Chrysaphius, tried to bribe him to assassinate his king. Edeco seemed to agree, but as soon as he reached Attila's court he informed him of the plan and the Hun monarch unmasked the Roman ambassador.[3][4][5]
- Idikon or Edico,[1] the father of Odoacer, who became a magister militum in the Roman Army and the first King of Italy (476–493).[1] This same Ediko is also claimed a few hundred years later as an ancestor of the ducal House of Welf (a branch of the House of Este), which is one of the ancestral houses of the House of Hanover; the Hanoverian family produced several royal dynasties, and survives to the present-day.
- A chieftain of the
Etymology
Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered the Hunnic name Έδέκων (Edekon) to be of Germanic or Germanized origin, but did not mention any derivation.[1]
Old Turkic verbal root *edär- (to pursue, to follow), and deverbal noun suffix κων (kun < r-k < r-g < *gun).[2] The reconstructed form is *edäkün (< *edär-kün; "follower, retainer").[8]
References
- ^ a b c d e Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 388.
- ^ a b Pritsak 1982, p. 456.
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- ISBN 9781446419328. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ISBN 9781409045366. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ Priscus, fragments 7 and 8, translated by C.D. Gordon, The Age of Attila: Fifth Century Byzantium and the Barbarians. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. 1966. pp. 70–93.
- ISBN 9780425202722. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ^ Pritsak 1982, p. 457.
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- Reynolds, Robert L.; Lopez, Robert S. (1946). "Odoacer: German or Hun?". JSTOR 1845067.