Octar

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Octar was a Hunnic ruler. His rule dates are unknown. He succeeded Charaton. Octar was said to be the second king of the Huns.

Octar may be identical with Uptar, a Hunnic ruler who died on the eve of a planned attack on the eastern Burgundians in 430 (according to the historian Socrates of Constantinople).

Jordanes says that Octar was a brother of Attila who ruled before him, but Jordanes is too concented with the Goths to care to be exact in his account of the Huns.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Jordanes. History of the Goths. in Geary, Patrick J., Readings in Midieval History. p. 100

Preceded by Charaton

Hunnic rule 425 — 430 (?)

Succeeded by Rugila