In this desperate situation, Attila remained unbowed and "heaped up a funeral pyre of horse saddles, so that if the enemy should attack him, he was determined to cast himself into the flames, that none might have the joy of wounding him and that the lord of so many races might not fall into the hands of his foes".
I denne desperate situation forblev Attila urokkelig og "opsatte en begravelseshøj af hestesadler således, at hvis fjenden skulle angribe ham, var han besluttet på at kaste sig i flammerne således, at ingen skulle få glæden at skade ham og at herren over så mange folkeslag ikke skulle falde i fjendens hænder».