An anonymous notary during the reign of Béla III, author of the Gesta Hungarorum — who wrote his "historical romance"[4] around 1200 or 1210[5] — stated that Álmos descended "from the line"[6] of Attila the Hun.

[8][9] He also wrote that Attila the Hun carried a banner which bore "the image of the bird the Hungarians call turul",[10] probably either a gyrfalcon or a hawk.

Notably, in The Secret History of the Mongols, it is reported that Genghis Khan's mother-in-law had a dream that a white falcon ("holding the Sun and the Moon its claws"[14][15]—the Turul was often depicted as the sun—)[15] flew down from the sky and lit on her hand, thus predicting the birth of a child and of the royal dynasty.

Falcons "populate many legends of the foundation of dynasties and empires";[15] they are popular in the traditions and symbolism of the steppe people, and are not exclusive or originary of any specific ethnic group living therein.

Historians Gyula Kristó[11] and Victor Spinei wrote that this story initially narrated the origin of Álmos's family from a totemic ancestor.

"[28] More skeptical authors have still remarked that "The etymology relating the name to the Hungarian common noun álom 'dream' cannot be rejected as readily [as other proposed etymologyes].

[41][42][43] In the 819th year of Our Lord's incarnation, Ügyek, who, as we said above, being of the family of King Magog became a long time later the most noble prince of Scythia, took to wife in Dentumoger the daughter of Duke Eunedubelian, called Emese, from whom he sired a son, who was named Álmos.

[7][45][6] Anonymus adds that to ratify Álmos's election, the seven chiefs "swore an oath, confirmed in pagan manner with their own blood spilled in a single vessel".

[7][6] Anonymus says that they also adopted the basic principles of the government, including the hereditary right of Álmos's offsprings to his office and the right of his electors' descendant to have a seat in the prince's council.

[1][48] The work of Constantine VII, who referred to Magyars as Turks,[49][50][35] though considered essentially reliable in its core by Western scholars, is often confusing and filled with legends.

[48] András Róna-Tas says that Constantine Porphyrogenitus preserved the memory of a coup d'état organized against Levedi kende by Álmos gyula, who had his own son Árpád elected as sacred ruler in his opponent's place.

[51] A late-9th-century Central Asian scholar, Abu Abdallah al-Jayhani—whose works were partially preserved in Ibn Rusta's and other Muslim authors' books—mentions the existence of these two high offices among the Hungarians.

[7][51][52] The chagan said to [Levedi]: "We have invited you upon this account, in order that, since you are noble and wise and valorous and first among the [Hungarians], we may appoint you prince of your nation, and you may be obedient to our word and our command."

[57] Spinei says that the memory of their arrival was preserved by Anonymus, who mentions "the seven dukes of the Cumans" who "subjected themselves to Prince Álmos" at Kiev.

[60] The Russian Primary Chronicle refers to a "Hungarian hill"[61] at Kiev in connection with the town's occupation by Oleg of Novgorod in 882.

[55] The Hungarians who lived in the westernmost parts of the Pontic steppes were occasionally hired by neighboring powers to intervene in their wars.

[7][67] Róna-Tas refutes this and says that if the chronicle's report is reliable, Álmos became the victim of a political murder committed or initiated by his own son.

[69] Preferring the narration of the Gesta Hungarorum to the report by the Illuminated Chronicle, Victor Spinei states that Álmos was not murdered in Transylvania since Anonymus writes that the Hungarians bypassed this region when invading the Carpathian Basin.