[Cogadh na Sith]

the Danube valley's slavic inhabitants and intermarried over time.

Hah! Slavs aren't 'white looking'--there's an old Russian saying: Scratch a Slav, wound a tartar. Look at Lenin and those mongolian features. The Magyar were probably the progeny of the caucasoid xiongnu coming back west to trade in europe.

[rmlew]

Hah! Slavs aren't 'white looking'--there's an old Russian saying: Scratch a Slav, wound a tartar. Look at Lenin and those mongolian features.

The Russians are Slavs. (Strictly speaking they are the eastern mixture of Varangians and Slav, the western mixture are the Ukranians and Belorussians)
As for Vladimir I'lich "Lenin" Ulianov, he was at least 1/4 Volga Bulgar. His maternal grandfather was a Bulgar and Lenin was born and raised in what is now the Chuvash state.

The Magyar were probably the progeny of the caucasoid xiongnu coming back west to trade in europe.
Language doesn't work.

[blam]

"The Magyar were probably the progeny of the caucasoid xiongnu coming back west to trade in europe."

Now you've got your thinking cap on.

I think most split the Tarim/Turpan basin going east and west due to a climate change that dried the whole region out. The Xiongnu assimilated with the Han and became the Hakka who migrated to southern China and elsewhere(IMO). I'm thinking that the earliest western version of the Hakka were the Picts. To this day, the Hakka are know as 'guests' in China.