Editing Humber (section)

==History==
The Humber features regularly in medieval British literature. In the [[Welsh Triads]], the Humber is (together with [[the Thames]] and the [[River Severn]]) one of the three principal rivers of Britain, and is continually mentioned throughout the [[Brut y Brenhinedd]] as a boundary between the southern kingdom ([[Lloegyr]]) and various northern kingdoms. In [[Geoffrey of Monmouth]]'s 12th-century historically unreliable chronicle ({{lang|la|[[Historia Regum Britanniae]]|italic=yes}}), 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 an important boundary throughout the [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] period, separating [[Northumbria]] from the southern kingdoms. The name ''Northumbria'' derives from the [[Anglo-Saxon language|Anglo-Saxon]] {{lang|ang|Norðhymbre}} (plural) = "the people north of the Humber".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Northumbria&allowed_in_frame=0 |title=Northumbria |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=12 August 2017 }}</ref>

The Humber is recorded with the abbreviation ''Fl. Abi'' (The Abus river, {{langx|grc|Ἄβος}}) in [[Ptolemy]]'s [[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geographia]], discharging into the German Ocean (the [[North Sea]]) south of [[Ocelum Promontorium]] (Spurn Head). Ptolemy also gives the [[Celts|Iron Age tribes]] of the area as the [[Coritani]] south of the Humber and the [[Parisi (Yorkshire)|Parisi]] to the north.<ref>{{cite DGRG|title=Abus}}</ref><ref>[[Ptolemy]], ''[[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geography]]'', 2.3.6.</ref>

In the 1719 novel ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'', Crusoe leaves England on a ship departing from The Humber.

On 23 August 1921, the British [[airship]] [[R38-class airship|R38]] crashed into the estuary near Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew on board.<ref>{{cite PastScape|mnumber=1512866|mname= Airship Memorial in Hull|access-date=14 January 2013 }} Entry includes considerable details about the ship, flight, and crash.</ref>

From 1974 to 1996, the areas now known as the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]], [[North Lincolnshire]] and [[North East Lincolnshire]] constituted the county of  [[Humberside]]. The Humber, from 1996, forms a boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire (to the north) and North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, to the south.