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General of the East Roman army in 378, "of royal Scythian lineage" ( , Zosimus IV, 25, 2). Modares was not a Hun, as some authors thought. No Hun could have held such a high position in 378. Modares was possibly a Visigoth. Zosimus (IV, 3, 4, 3) calls Athanaric the leader . The name seems to be the short form of a Germanic name beginning with Moda-; see Schnfeld 1911, 118. General of the East Roman army in 378, "of royal Scythian lineage" (Zosimus IV, 25, 2). Modares was not a Hun, as some authors thought. No Hun could have held such a high position in 378. Modares was possibly a Visigoth. Zosimus (IV, 3, 4, 3) calls Athanaric the leader . The name seems to be the short form of a Germanic name beginning with Moda-; see Schnfeld 1911, 118.

Leader of mutinous Rugians in the northern Dobrogea who between 434 and 441 took, and for awhile held, Noviodunum. [433] Val might be Germanic, the ending is obscure. But this is no reason to call Valips a Hun. [434]

The name of the feeble-minded jester [435] has nothing to do with protoBulgarian iirg, in Latin transcription zerco or zergo. The iirg boila had a high rank; he was perhaps minister of foreign affairs. [436] There lay a world between him and the repulsive creature at whom Attila would not even look. Zerkon is probably a "Maurusian" name.

Var
Var, the Hunnish name of the Dnieper, [437] is the same as bor- in Borysthenes, the Iranian name of the river. It means "broad, wide," Avestan varu-, Ossetic urx, urux. [438] Ptolemy's , [439] the Kuban or one of its tributaries, is *var-dan, "the broad river," Urux, a left tributary of the Terek, "the broad one." The Huns and after them the Pechenegs took over the ancient Iranian name. [440]