Before campaigning season began he [Atilla the Hun] decided to add yet another to the long series of his wives. On this occasion his bride was Ildico.... After the wedding Atilla drank far into the night, and when much of the following day had passed and he did not reappear, his servants shouted loudly ouside the door of his room and eventually forced an entry. They found their master dead and his bride weeping beside him, her face covered with her veil. Attila had bled heavily through the nose during the night (as, indeed, he had often done before), and being heavily drunk had been suffocated in his sleep. His body bore no trace of a wound. The Huns were dumbfounded. They cut off their hair and slashed their faces with their swords, so that 'the greatest of all warriors should be mourned with no feminine lamentations and with no tears, but with the blood of men.' ^*

Well, the Huns just got +1000 points to the manliness department. Forget bench pressing, we now have a cultural norm where men around the country bleed themselves so that their leader's passing would not be pussified with girly tears.

E. A. Thompson, The Huns (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999): 164-65.