Humber the Hun was a legendary king of so-called "Huns" who, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae,...
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Britanniae), the Humber is named for "Humber the Hun", an invader who drowned there during battle in the earliest days of the chronicle. The Humber remained...
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and Labrador, Canada Humber River (Toronto), Ontario, Canada People Humber the Hun was a legendary king of the Huns Philip Humber, a pitcher in Major League...
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Excalibur (redirect from The Sword in the Lake)
Traditionally, the sword in the stone that is the proof of Arthur's lineage and the sword given to him by a Lady of the Lake are not the same weapon, even as...
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death at the hands of Humber the Hun by allying with his other brother, Kamber, and fighting Humber to the banks of a river where he drowned. The river was...
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Matter of Britain (redirect from The Arthurian Legend)
The Matter of Britain (French: matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany...
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King Arthur (category Knights of the Round Table)
central figure in the medieval literary tradition known as the Matter of Britain. In Welsh sources, Arthur is portrayed as a leader of the post-Roman Britons...
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down in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), and Geoffrey's account of the character...
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Merlin (redirect from Merlin the wizard)
figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician, with several other main roles. The familiar depiction of Merlin,...
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Logres (category Terminology of the British Isles)
for the great River Humber divides these two from Loegria. Loegria itself was placed under the Metropolitan of London, along with Cornwall. The Severn...
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Brutus of Troy (redirect from Brutus the Trojan)
of the Trojan hero Aeneas, known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Britain. This legend first appears in the Historia...
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In the Matter of Britain, Igraine (/iːˈɡreɪn/) is the mother of King Arthur. Igraine is also known in Latin as Igerna, in Welsh as Eigr (Middle Welsh Eigyr)...
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Avalon (redirect from The Isle of Avalon)
Avalon (/ˈævəlɒn/) is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as...
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of Brutus of Troy). Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion. The effigies of Gogmagog and Corineus...
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Bedivere (redirect from Bedivere of the Perfect Sinews)
spellings) is one of the earliest characters to be featured in the legend of King Arthur, originally described in several Welsh texts as the one-handed great...
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Geoffrey's genealogy of the British dynasty, Leir reigned around the 8th century BC, around the time of the founding of Rome. The story was modified and...
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King Lot (category Knights of the Round Table)
Geoffrey suggests Lot as also the biological father of Mordred, and the much later prose romances identify him as the father of Gawain's younger brothers...
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Myrddin Wyllt (category Britons of the North)
accounted a chief bard, the speaker of several poems in The Black Book of Carmarthen and The Red Book of Hergest. He is called Wyllt—"the Wild"—by Elis Gruffydd...
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Llŷr (section The House of Llŷr)
Brânwen and Manawydan by Penarddun in the Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, the Second Branch of the Mabinogi. The Welsh Triads states that Llŷr was imprisoned...
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Morgause (/mɔːrˈɡeɪz/) is a popular variant of the figure of the Queen of Orkney, an Arthurian legend character also known by various other names and...
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Beli Mawr (redirect from Beli the Great)
Beli Mawr (Welsh for 'Beli the Great') was an ancestor figure in Middle Welsh literature and genealogies. He is the father of Cassivellaunus, Arianrhod...
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Corineus (section History of the Kings of Britain)
years, dying from a lingering wound he had received in battle with Humber the Hun, and returns as a ghost to witness Locrine's downfall. Corineus is also...
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his territory, north of the River Thames, corresponds with that inhabited by the tribe named the Catuvellauni at the time of the later invasion under Claudius...
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Magnus Maximus (redirect from The Dream of Maxen)
Armorica declared independence from the Roman Empire in 407, but contributed archers for Aetius's defence against Attila the Hun, and its king Riothamus was subsequently...
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King Camber (section In the Book of Baglan)
Cornwall; from Welsh Lloegr) and the title of King of the Britons. When Albanactus was murdered by Humber, King of the Huns, Camber joined Locrinus in attacking...
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been abducted by Humber the Hun and brought to Britain during their invasion following King Brutus' death; eventually the Hun invasion was suppressed...
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Historia Regum Britanniae (redirect from History of the Kings of the Britons)
divide the country between themselves; the three kingdoms are named Loegria, Kambria (North and West of the Severn to Humber) and Albany (Scotland). The story...
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Mordred (category Knights of the Round Table)
Medrawt) is a major figure in the legend of King Arthur. The earliest known mention of a possibly historical Medraut is in the Welsh chronicle Annales Cambriae...
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King Lud (section King Lud in the City of London)
of the Kings of Britain and related medieval texts, was a king of Britain in pre-Roman times who founded London and was buried at Ludgate. He was the eldest...
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(History of the Kings of Britain), Estrildis, the daughter of a king in Germania, was brought to Britain as a captive of Chief Humber the Hun during his...
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