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The addition of an unetymological ''h''- in Medieval Latin is most likely due to early pseudo-historical associations with the [[Huns]] who had settled Hungary prior to the Avars, as in [[Theophylactus Simocatta]] where he states, "''Hunnougour'', descendants of the Hun hords".
Another explanation was recorded in the 13th century by Anonymous in the Gesta Hungarorum, who stated name Hungary originating from the castle Ung (Hungu) in Slovakia.<ref>https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesta_Hungarorum</ref>
Et uocatus est arpad dux hungarie et ab hungu omnes sui milites uocatj sunt hunguarie...
‘And Arpad was called duke of Hungarie from Hungu and his warriors were called Hunguarians...’
The period of conquest of this region overlaps the period in which the term is first used by Georgius Monachus et al. The fact Monachus' reference is only a few years before Arpads birth suggests the term was already being applied to his father when Arpad became Duke.
Later the Italians began using the Latin phrase Hungarorum which first appears in the The Song of the Watchmen of Modena in 924 AD.
A sagittis Hungarorum libera nos Domine!
‘Of the arrow that of Hungarians, O Lord deliver us!’
This may actually be a play on words taking the similarity of the word hunguarie to the name of the Huns, as Hungarorum literally means stinking mass of Huns. Garorum is plural for garum which was an Italian sauce made from fermented fish intestines. It is the phrase Hungarorum and not hunguarie which then became the accepted term to refer to Hungarians as the title of the Hungarian chronicle Gesta Hungarorum attests to. Anonymous also uses the singular form of the fish sauce reference in his prologue as the word Hungarum, "Incipit prologus in gesta hungarum".
==Hungary in written sources==
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