3 alternative scenarios exist: i) " An alternative to the nosebleed theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking " ii) " An alternate story lady seeking flirt of his death, first recorded eighty years after the fact by the chronicler Count Marcellinus, reports: "Attila Hunnorum Europae orbator provinciae noctu mulieris manu cultroque confoditur." ("Attila, of the Huns and ravager of the provinces of Europe, was pierced by the hand and blade of his wife." " iii) " Based on detailed philological analysis, (-) Babcock (in The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun, Berkley Books, ISBN ***) concludes that the account of natural death, given by Priscus, was an ecclesiastical "cover story" and that Emperor Marcian (who ruled the Eastern Empire from ) was the political force behind Attila's death "