Excerpt from Hungary It is a great mistake to think that they were barbarians. On the contrary, the leaders and better classes were evidently more cultured than most European nations at that time. The workmanship of their old jewels and arms shows them to have had Persian culture. But they had living amongst them many wild nomadic people, who for many years caused uneasiness. Whenever they appeared, plunder and bloodshed was the outcome. On their sturdy, fleet little horses they swept down unawares and with great swiftness upon the neighbouring countries, and penetrated even as far as France. In Spain there is a saying to this day to frighten naughty children with The Ungaros are coming. This may be an old saying, or it may be fear of the gipsies that gave rise to it, because of these there are plenty speaking the Hungarian tongue even in Spain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.