Slave of the Huns

Slave of the Huns is a novel by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi, published in 1901.

At the start he is sold into slavery as a child, and bought by Maximinus, in whose household he is treated sadistically.

He accompanies Priscus on his visit to Attila, and falls in love with Emmo, the daughter of a Hunnish nobleman (a "princesse lointaine" figure).

He commits himself to slavery among the Huns in the hope of eventually marrying her, to some extent going native among them.

It includes dramatic accounts of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains between the Huns and the Romans, and the funeral of Attila.