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  Humber the Hun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Humber the Hun was a legendary king of the Huns as accounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Humber drowned in that river, which was thereafter known as the Humber, one of the main rivers of England.
When Locrinus raided Humber's ships after his death, he found Estrildis, the daughter of the King of Germany there.
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 Sarmatian-Magyar connection
In the patriarchal society of the Huns the river was always a symbol of masculinity and procreation: the Magyar words for to pour and semen (ont, ondó) are closely related thus preserving this concept up to this day.
Ashe believes that the mention of the Huns at this age is incorrect and the result of a later historian’s error since Atilla’s Huns arrived centuries later in the European arena.
The Huns were present as part of the Magyar nations since times immemorial in the Carpathian valley and have left many traces all over Western Europe from the earliest times on.
www.acronet.net /~magyar/english/1997-3/GRAIL.htm   (13321 words)

  
 A History of Europe, Chapter 5
On top of all that, Huns were utterly ruthless warriors, who easily outran all their enemies and were deadly in the use of the bow and the lasso (which was used to capture or unhorse an opponent).
The Huns swept across the Ukrainian and Hungarian steppes to the Danube, enslaved the Visigoths and Gepids, and settled down with their flocks, now lords of a pasture that stretched farther than anyone could keep track of.
The surviving Huns returned to the Russian steppe, except for a few who stayed in Hungary to raid the Eastern Empire; when they found that even this was beyond their strength, they also withdrew to the Black Sea (470).
xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu05.html   (18691 words)

  
 Humber Pig - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Humber Pig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Humber Pig was a heavily-armoured truck used by the British Army from the 1950s until the 1990s.
The mark I (FV 1609) vehicles were built by adding an armoured body to a four wheel drive Humber truck, and were originally designed as a stop-gap until fleets of purpose-built armoured vehicles were delivered.
However, the vehicles proved ideal for internal security duties in Ulster and served longer that their intended successors.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Humber-Pig.html   (197 words)

  
 Humber (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Humber is a large tidal estuary in Northern England.
Humber is also the name of one of the ranges of cars manufactured by the Rootes Group
Humber the Hun was a legendary king of the Huns.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Humber-(disambiguation).htm   (115 words)

  
 Old England, Shelfdwellers, and Seawolves
The Hun invasion of eastern Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries caused the tribes to seek and find the capability to resettle on Englis shores.
The Danes took to the area immediately south of the river Humber on the east shore of England and extending to the south.
These resettlements were and still are regarded as, and called, the Anglo-Saxon resettlement as the Anglo-Saxons did, in fact, relocate in England in larger numbers than did the other tribes.
www.geocities.com /ukself/meaning.html   (1185 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Humber is also the name of one of the ranges of cars manufactured by the Rootes Group Humber is also the name of a river in Newfoundland, Canada, as well as a river and a college, both in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Humber was an automobile marque used in the United Kingdom by the Rootes Group.
The Humber Forts are two large fortifications in the mouth of the river Humber in northern England: Haile Sand Fort and Bull Sands Fort.
www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=H/HU/HUM   (10981 words)

  
 Newman Reader - Northmen & Normans in England & Ireland - 1
What the horse was to the Hun, such was the light bark to the Norwegian or Dane [Note 4].
The sea, instead of being a barrier, was the very element and condition of his victories, and it carried him upon its bosom up and down with an ease and expedition which even in an open plain country was impracticable.
The passage of Alfred is well known: "Very few are the clergy on this side the Humber who could understand their daily prayers in English, or translate any thing from the Latin.
www.newmanreader.org /works/historical/volume3/northmen/section1.html   (6795 words)

  
 Medieval Europe By H.W.C. Davis,M.A.- Chapter 4 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT Calicut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His successors, Athaulf and Wallia, undertook to pacify Gaul and to recover Spain for the rulers of Ravenna; the second of these sovereigns was rewarded with a settlement, for himself and his followers, between the Loire and the Garonne (419).
In the terrible battle of Troyes, against Attila the Hun (451), they did good service to the Roman cause; but both before and after that event they were chiefly occupied in extending their boundaries by force or fraud.
Their aggressions were checked on the West by the Roman governors of the country lying between the Somme and the Loire; and their power was impaired by the partition of the Salian people among a swarm of petty kings.
www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/medieval/chapter4.html   (5925 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Humber and Hubba armed in azure blue, Mounted upon their coursers white as snow, Went to behold the pleasant flowering fields; Hector and Troialus, Priamus lovely sons, Chasing the Graecians over Simoeis, Were not to be compared to these two knights.
Now, cursed Humber, hast thou paid thy due, For thy deceits and crafty treacheries, For all thy guiles and damned strategems, With loss of life, and everduring shame.
So Gwendoline, seeing her self misused, And Humber's paramour possess her place, Flies to the dukedom of Cornubia, And with her brother, stout Thrasimachus, Gathering a power of Cornish soldiers, Gives battle to her husband and his host, Nigh to the river of great Mertia.
mirror.aarnet.edu.au /pub/pg/etext98/1ws4810.txt   (18337 words)

  
 Locrinus - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He revenged his brother, Albanactus's death by Humber the Hun by allying with his other brother, Kamber, and fighting Humber to the banks of a river where he drowned.
He also took the daughter of the king of the Germans, Estrildis, whom the Huns had captured.
This angered Corineus, an ally of his father Brutus, who had arranged a marriage between Locrinus and his own daughter, Queen Gwendolen.
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Locrinus   (251 words)

  
 GBU-15 bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Hutchison effect is actually not one but a collection of effects, which were discovered accidentally by John Hutchison during attempts in 1979 to repeat experiments done by Tesla.
He is noted in the novel for constantly trying to photograph women nude, claiming to be a Hollywood producer.
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
www.elexi.de /en/g/gb/gbu_15.html   (836 words)

  
 A gentle nymph not far from hence - This Is Worcestershire archive
"Humber, the legendary king of the Huns, fabled by Geoffrey of Monmouth to have invaded Britain about 1000 BC.
Humber made towards the river in his flight and was drowned in it, on account of which it has since borne his name."
In the King's School Gardens, opened in 1931, there is a fountain on the site of the 80ft high mound of the Castle of Worcester, where a 1930s cast sculpture of Sabrina kneels on one knee on top of a stone column, overlooking the River Severn.
archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk /2002/02/27/285284.html   (252 words)

  
 The age of magic
The golden plow, and yoke which fell from the sky, are symbols of a settled, agricultural life and their origin goes as far back as the Golden Age.
Albactanus, king of Scotland was killed in a battle with the Huns 25 years after the arrival of the Trojans to the British Isles.
Humber drowned in a river during the battle.
www.acronet.net /~magyar/english/1997-3/JRNL97.htm   (11894 words)

  
 World History Timeline, 35000 B.C. - 999 A.D.
Attila the Hun, "Scourge of God," becomes King of the Huns.
Attila the Hun, invades Gaul, battle of Châlons.
King Egbert (o/s) conquers Mercian kingdom (Map) and all south of the Humber.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/timeline1.html   (990 words)

  
 S for Sugar 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There was a two stage supercharger on our engines and at this height it was just between the best change levels, we were always shifting from one stage to another and watching our boost gauges as the engine revs surged around, as if we didn't have enough to do.
"Watch for the Hun in the Sun" was something that had been drilled into all fighter pilots from their training days on, looking up with smoke tinted goggles at best they would look shadowy silhouettes close at hand and diving fast.
The Luftwaffe always had this advantage in the mornings when the Sun was in the east - why most operations, especially bomber escorts, were always in the mornings we never found out.
www.198sqn-raf.co.uk /198sqn_027.htm   (1566 words)

  
 1697 explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Which made him swell, that there his bowels burst, So Humber, having conquered Albanact, Mark what ensues and you may easily see, ACT III.
The Hun shall die, had he ten thousand lives: That I might with the arm-strong Hercules But say me, cousin, for I long to hear, After the traitrous host of Scithians Young Albanact, impatient of delay, Whose multitude did daunt our soldiers' minds.
But with a courage most heroical, Made havoc of the faintheart fugitives, Yea, we had almost given them the repulse, Hubba, with twenty thousand soldiers, And murthered all with fatal massacre.
www.wordspider.net /16/1697.html   (427 words)

  
 Anglo Saxons
Fierce and warlike Huns defeat the Goths, who crossed the Danube and Rhine and entered the Roman Empire.
451: Attila the Hun (the Huns were an Asiatic people) was defeated at Chalons.
Angles: East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians and the Northumbrians (north of the River Humber).
www.geocities.com /fairauthor/Anglo1.html   (773 words)

  
 Queen
Queen Gwendolen Queen Gwendolen was the wife of King Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Gwendolen was the daughter of Humber the Hun,...
Queen II 1974) Queen II is a United Kingdom, and engineeed by Mike Stone.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/queen.html   (3040 words)

  
 Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust [Free Republic]
John Woodmorappe, M.A. and Paul Humber, M.A. for their insight and comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
Humber, P., The Ascent of Racism, Impact, February, p.
It is clear that WWI did not start for religious reasons, per se, but the rhetoric and the combatants were definitely leaning that way.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a382c1e8761a9.htm   (9705 words)

  
 Arthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They begged Roman general Aetius in Gaul to come over to Britain and reestablish Roman control, but the latter was facing Attila the Hun at the moment and therefore preoccupied.
Used as they were to moving freely from province to province in a world they imagined still united under one Roman authority, the aristocrats settled their families and retainers in new homes south of the Channel.
They were welcomed by Aegidius, the Roman general of Gaul who succeeded Aetius after the Huns were defeated (451).
www.seanet.com /~janicevc/arthur.htm   (7352 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They were an Asiatic people, from the northern slopes of the Ural Mountains, who had been moving westward since the commencement of the century.
Contemporaries identified them with the Huns of Attila, and the resemblance was more than superficial.
The Hungarians were of the Tartar race--nomads who lived by hunting and war, skilled in horsemanship and archery, utterly barbarous and a byeword for cruelty.
gd.tuwien.ac.at /books/gutenberg/etext04/mdvlp10.txt   (22208 words)

  
 Titanic and Other Ships By Charles Herbert Lightoller
I told him I was not a bit interested in what was entered; with the result that nothing was entered and the Yeoman in due course got his promotion without losing a single day.
Most of us were frankly sorry, for although it had been a life that called for the best in a man--and took the most--still it was real life and the one and only stretch of sea where one was in close and constant touch with Jerry the Hun.
The reason for our transfer was that with the new minefield laid and the installing of Lightships with their three million candle power flares, the Straits had become a shade too unhealthy even for the ubiquitous Bosche.
www.titanic-titanic.com /titanic_e-books/titanic_and_other_ships_41.shtml   (2260 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 500   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Events Qi He Di succeeds Qo Dong Hun Hou as ruler of the Chinese Qi Dynasty Pope Symmachus is accused of various crimes, but claims that the secular rulers have no authority over him.
Ælle was king of the South Saxons from 477 to perhaps as late as 514, and was named Bretwalda by Bede, who adds that he was overlord of the Anglo-Saxons south of the Humber river.
King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/500   (1184 words)

  
 Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck
Danes also recognized the authority of Edward as he now ruled all England south of the Humber, though Vikings led by Raegnald's cousin Sihtric invaded Mercia in 920 with an army from Dublin.
The next year Olaf invaded Northumbria; but he died and was succeeded by his cousin Olaf Sihtricson, who lost the gained territory to Edmund in 942.
In this poem royal children are given as hostages to Attila the Hun - Hagen from the Franks, Hildegund from Burgundy, and Walter from Aquitane.
www.san.beck.org /AB17-FeudalEurope.html   (24112 words)

  
 Lost Worlds Page 11 - From 500AD to 1000AD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Danish plan is to divide England into two, north and south of the Humber River, under Guthorm and Halfdan of the Wide Embrace.
C595AD: The Bulgars are assailed by the Avars (who are also similar to the Huns), but at end of C6th is emergence of a Bulgarian state.
His eldest son Ellak is successor, the junior sons are Dengizik and Ernak, given control of some subordinate people who till the land, serve as soldiers, obey the Hun rulers.
www.danbyrnes.com.au /lostworlds/timeline/lwstory11.htm   (16768 words)

  
 HMAS SYDNEY vs a Zepplin
The Zeppelin continued to rise and turned away, either because she did not want to fight or else to draw the Sydney on in order to get her to steam over the position on the water that the Zeppelin had been manoeuvring, which was thought to be a submarine nest or rendezvous.
If such was the game, it failed, because as soon as Captain Dumaresq thought he saw the Hun manoeuvre he turned and ran away from the Zeppelin.
The manoeuvre "to scatter" is used for several reasons, but had never before been used for Captain Dumaresq's reason.
www.gwpda.org /naval/sydvszep.htm   (1627 words)

  
 Movers: Middle Ages (450 - 1400) - By Miles Hodges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Attila was born near Budapest in Central Europe to the royal family of Huns.
In 433 he became king of the Huns and began the process of turning his tribesmen into a powerful fighting instrument.
By 731 all of the Saxon provinces south of the Humber River were under his rule.
www.newgenevacenter.org /movers/middle-ages2.htm   (6397 words)

  
 Paradise in France
The mud of France is red with blood, men killed by sword and quarrel and musketball over a thousand years.
Now the Hun was dying there by shellfire.
Streaks of light arced overhead, ending in distant dull thuds.
www.fysh.org /~katie/writing/paradise.html   (991 words)

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