Man, imagine if you were one of the ‘Bright Ones’, and you were trekking up to see the ‘New Castle’, and you’d heard it was in the land ‘north of the Humber’, and thought “can’t be much further now” when you got the The Humber.
Back durong the Heptarchy pretty much everything north of the Humber was the Kingdom of Northumbria. The Danes took the southern half of the Kingdowm, leaving a Northumbria rump state over the approximate location of modern day Northumberland/Tyne and Wear.
Man, imagine if you were one of the ‘Bright Ones’, and you were trekking up to see the ‘New Castle’, and you’d heard it was in the land ‘north of the Humber’, and thought “can’t be much further now” when you got the The Humber.
Back durong the Heptarchy pretty much everything north of the Humber was the Kingdom of Northumbria. The Danes took the southern half of the Kingdowm, leaving a Northumbria rump state over the approximate location of modern day Northumberland/Tyne and Wear.