A fleet grew out of the little squadron which Alfred had been forced to man with Frisian seamen.

Dumble, as we knew, had sold the Baron one horse and saddle, one Frisian-Holstein cow, and an incubator.

Frisian and Teuton, Dane and Norwegian, Scot, Irish, and Icelander, him of Cathness and of Gothland, the lords of Galway and of the furthest islands of the Hebrides, Arthur summoned them all.

A fleet of a hundred and twenty ships of war was stationed upon the coast; and being provided with warlike engines, as well as with expert seamen, both Frisians and English, (for Alfred supplied the defects of his own subjects by engaging able foreigners in his service,) maintained a superiority over these smaller bands with which England had so often been infested [l].

He collected a body of troops, which, like that of all those ravagers, was composed of Norwegians, Swedes, Frisians, Danes, and adventurers of all nations, who, being accustomed to a roving unsettled life, took delight in nothing but war and plunder.

The Frisians, a tribe of the Germans, had never advanced beyond this wild and imperfect state of society; and the right of private revenge still remained among them unlimited and uncontrolled [m].

The inhabitants are Low Germans (Dutch), Frankish, Saxon, Frisian, and Jews, the latter numbering some sixty thousand, though their influence is, owing to their wealth and activity, larger than these figures would normally represent.

The Frisians are in North Holland, separated by the river Meuse from the Franks; the Saxons extend to the Utrecht Veldt.

In no part of the country do the Dutch present a marked physical type, but, on the other hand, they are sharply differenced, in various localities, by their laws, their customs, and particularly by their dialects; indeed the Frisians have a distinct language of their own.

As the West Saxons were not a seafaring people, he employed and munificently rewarded men from other nations more accustomed to the sea,whether Frisians, Franks, Britons, Scots, or even Danes.

As those pagans told the Jesuits in Japona, they would do as their forefathers have done: and with Ratholde the Frisian Prince, go to hell for company, if most of their friends went thither: they will not be moved, no persuasion, no torture can stir them.

"Toward the North; in the land of the Swedes and Frisians, there was an ancient kingdom, and hunger came upon the people, and they gathered together, and it was resolved that every tenth man should depart.

" They disdained the cruel message that their forefathers were in the perpetually burning umu, the oven, as did that Frisian king, Radbod, who with one leg in the baptismal font, bethought him to ask where were his dead progenitors, and was answered by the militant bishop, Wolfran, "In hell, with all unbelievers.

His day, October 9. FRISIANS, St. Wilbrod (657-738).

St. Boniface was murdered in Friesland by some peasants, and his day is June 5 (680-755). ... in Friesland first St. Boniface our best, Who of the see of Mentz, while there he sat possessed, At Dockum had his death, by faithless Frisians slain.

Between the fifth and the ninth centuries we get the Visigothic, Burgundian, Salic, Ripuarian, Alemannic, Lombardian, Bavarian, Frisian, Saxon, and Thuringian law books.

The Old West Frisian Skeltana riucht.

The Old West Frisian Skeltana riucht.

The Frisian Radbod also expressed his disgust at the converting methods of Charles the Hammer.

FRISIANS, a Low German people, who occupied originally the shores of the North Sea from the mouths of the Rhine and Ems; distinguished for their free institutions; tribes of them at one time invaded Britain, where traces of their presence may still be noted.

In the summer it is crowded with visitors, bathing being the chief attraction; fishing is the staple industry of the native Frisians.

By the third century, German tribes had formed themselves into federationsthe Franks, Alemanni, Frisians and Saxons.

It was almost certainly sacred to Forsete, the son of Balder the Sun-godif he be identified, as Grimm and all Frisian writers identify him, with Fosite the Frisian god.

It was almost certainly sacred to Forsete, the son of Balder the Sun-godif he be identified, as Grimm and all Frisian writers identify him, with Fosite the Frisian god.

It is generally supposed that Heligoland was first named the Holy Island from its association with the worship of Forsete, and latterly in consequence of the conversion of the Frisian inhabitants.