Otto arrived on August 10 to find the city totally surrounded. One monastic annalist estimated, very improbably, that there were one hundred thousand Magyars outside it. Whatever their real numbers, these Magyar warriors, under leaders called Bulcsu, Lehel, and Taksony, were unquestionably battle hardened, having already plundered their way through Bavaria, “which they devastated and occupied from the Danube to the dark forests on the rim of the mountains.”
