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(1) Attila, king of the Huns. A.P. Stanley says the term was first applied to Attila in the Hungarian Chronicles. In Isidore's Chronicle the Huns are called Virga Dei. (*, 434-453.)
(2) Genseric, king of the Vandals, who went about like a destroying angel “against all those who had, in his opinion, incurred the wrath of God.”(Probably the word Godegesal (Gothgesal, God-given) was purposely twisted into God-gesil (God's scourge) by those who hated him, because he was an Arian, God-gesal (or Deodatus) was the common title of the contemporary kings, like our Dei Gratiâ. (*, 429-477.)
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