 According to the Annals of St. Bertin , the Magyars who invaded East Francia in 862 were enemies " hitherto unknown " to the local population . Likewise , Regino of Prüm wrote that the Magyars had been " unheard of in the previous centuries because they were not named " . in the sources . Both remarks evince that late 9th @-@ century authors had no knowledge of the Magyars ' origins . However , the Magyar raids reminded the Western European and Byzantine scholars of earlier historians ' descriptions of the Scythians or Huns , which gave rise to their identification with those peoples . For instance , Leo the Wise listed the Hungarians among the " Scythian nations " . The similarity between the Latin ethnonyms Huni and <unk> strengthened the identification of the two peoples , which became commonplace in Western Europe in the 11th century . The Chronicon <unk> was the first source that clearly stated that the Huns and the Hungarians were the same people . 
