Humber the Hun was a legendary king of so-called "Huns" who, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, invaded the British Isles in about the 12th century BC from Scythia.
His people successfully conquered Alba but he himself was drowned in the river named Humber after him during his campaign against Southern Britain.
Thus Humber's Huns were able to settle Britain with their Queen Estrildis eventually marrying Locrinus.
[2] Poetry includes The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser;[6] "An old Ballad of a Duke of Cornwall's Daughter", published in a 1726 collection of old ballads;[3] and the introduction to the poem The revenge of Guendolen (circa 1786) by J.J.
[1] The river names, she suggests, are associated with legendary figures who attempt to transgress boundaries, in this case an invading king, who are destroyed by the water that defines the limits.