Edeko
By the name Edeko (with various spellings:Edicon, Ediko, Edica, Ethico) are considered three contemporaneous historical figures,[1] whom many scholars identified as one:
- A prominent Hun, who served as both Attila's deputy and his ambassador to the Byzantine Empire (in 449),[1][2] believed by most historians to be the father of Odoacer[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] He is believed by most historians to be the same person as the prominent Hun ambassador[5][3][4] 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 Sciri, who was defeated at the Battle of Bolia by the Ostrogoths at the river Bolia in Pannonia sometime in the late 460s.[6]
Etymology
Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered the Hunnic name Έδέκων (Edekon) to be of Germanic or Germanized origin, but did not mention any derivation.[1]
Omeljan Pritsak derived it from 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").[7]
References
- Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 388.
- Pritsak 1982, p. 456.
- Magill, Frank N. (2012). The Middle Ages - Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis. p. 685. ISBN 9781136593130. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- Pohl, Walter (2015). Le origini etniche dell'Europa Barbari e Romani tra antichità e medioevo (in Italian). Viella Libreria Editrice. ISBN 9788867285570. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- Marcantonio, Angela (2018). The state of the art of Uralic studies: tradition vs innovation. Sapienza Università Editrice. p. 27. ISBN 9788893770668. Retrieved 16 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.
- Pritsak 1982, p. 457.
- Sources
- Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1973). The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520015968.
- Pritsak, Omeljan (1982). The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan (PDF). Vol. IV. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. ISSN 0363-5570.
- Reynolds, Robert L.; Lopez, Robert S. (1946). "Odoacer: German or Hun?". The American Historical Review. 52 (1): 36–53. doi:10.1086/ahr/52.1.36. JSTOR 1845067.
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