Sunday Blues Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, episode 6. A conversation with swords.

You may have noticed a slight change in music. Yes, you have a one-time opportunity to hear my insanely talented sister, Isadora Silvera Camargos,

whose new singles Smile and Fly has just come out. As a special treat, you can listen to the whole song at the end of the podcast. Enjoy!

But now, back to our show.

Last week, we left Otto for the endth time snatching victory from the jaws of near certain defeat.

But success in this final civil war had come at a steep price.

The main battlefield of Bavaria and its capital

Regensburg lay in ruins. Equally, the area around Augsburg had been devastated,

and the Hungarian raids had taken their toll on Lothringia. As it happened, the fighting did not

end with Ludolf's surrender. In particular, the Bavarians really did not want their Duke Henry back.

Led by the descendants of the previous Ducal family, they kept on fighting all the way into May 955.

Duke Henry brutally suppressed these uprisings, including by blinding the Archbishop of Salzburg,

an act of unprecedented brutality

on an anointed bishop. But even their surrender in May 955 did not end the plight of the Bavarians.

Come July, more Hungarians than anyone living had ever seen anywhere before broke into the country.

They occupied in devastated Bavaria between the Danube and the Alps.

They crossed the river Lech south of Augsburg and moved into Swabia,

burning and plundering the land all the way to the Iller River.

And on August 8th, 955, they began the siege of Oxford. The Hungarians, or Magyars,

had been a feature on this podcast in each of the last five episodes. The annual raids have come

like clockwork almost every year, usually timed around periods of political weakness or civil

war. But so far, we have heard little about the Hungarians themselves.

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