Brewer's: Abus

The river Humber.

For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright.

And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says:

For my princely name. From Humber, king of Huns, as anciently it came.

See Geoffrey's Chronicles, Bk. ii. 2.

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