Throughout the Middle Ages, they were variously identified as the Vikings, Huns, Khazars, Mongols or other nomads, or even the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

And that is why ascribing our often mistaken beliefs on to others is not going to make any difference in the end.

People have been trying to make every major event out to be the Biblical end of days, it happens constantly with any major shifts in the world, and it has not happened yet.