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In 785 they were finally subdued by Charlemagne, who gave to them a code of laws, in Latin termed the Lex Fri schum. In connection with their laws it may be stated that the feudal system was never erected in Friesland.
For some time after 785 the country was under the control of the Franks, and in 843 Frisia was divided into three parts, Lewis the German receiving East and Central Frisia, and Charles the Bald the West.
Shortly after its subjection by the Franks, Frisia was over run by the Normans, until a.d. 1024. After their departure the country was parcelled out among several petty princes and powers, and has so remained until modern times; but among this people there has always existed that intense love of liberty which has caused its attribute or epithet of Free to be its greatest glory, so that after all these centuries the alliteration Free Frisians inevitably presents itself to the mind of the scholar who thinks of the race and not the least of its glories is the fact that under the leadership of that majestic figure, William the Silent, wherever a blow was struck for hearth or home against the overshadowing despotisms of the south, there in the forefront of the battle were to be found these wild beggars of the sea, as they were termed by the malignity of their foes.
Old Friesic literature consists almost exclusively of law books, each district having its own. There are a few other fragments found among the laws - the Creation of Man, the ten commandments, a legal riddle, the awful signs and wonders that shall usher in the day of judgment, a sort of scriptural genealogy, and lists of the Roman emperors, and of the bishops who ruled Frisia in early days.
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In 785 they were finally subdued by Charlemagne, who gave to them a code of laws, in Latin termed the Lex Fri schum. In connection with their laws it may be stated that the feudal system was never erected in Friesland.
For some time after 785 the country was under the control of the Franks, and in 843 Frisia was divided into three parts, Lewis the German receiving East and Central Frisia, and Charles the Bald the West.
Shortly after its subjection by the Franks, Frisia was over run by the Normans, until a.d. 1024. After their departure the country was parcelled out among several petty princes and powers, and has so remained until modern times; but among this people there has always existed that intense love of liberty which has caused its attribute or epithet of Free to be its greatest glory, so that after all these centuries the alliteration Free Frisians inevitably presents itself to the mind of the scholar who thinks of the race and not the least of its glories is the fact that under the leadership of that majestic figure, William the Silent, wherever a blow was struck for hearth or home against the overshadowing despotisms of the south, there in the forefront of the battle were to be found these wild beggars of the sea, as they were termed by the malignity of their foes.
Old Friesic literature consists almost exclusively of law books, each district having its own. There are a few other fragments found among the laws - the Creation of Man, the ten commandments, a legal riddle, the awful signs and wonders that shall usher in the day of judgment, a sort of scriptural genealogy, and lists of the Roman emperors, and of the bishops who ruled Frisia in early days.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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In the year 13 B. C. Drusus, the Roman general, afterwards surnamed Germanicus, found a tribe of Germans called by themselves Fresar, and by the Romans Frisii, dwelling on the north-west coast of Germany, between the mouth of the Rhine and of the Ems, together with the Batavi, Bracteri, and Chauci, and not far removed from their more northern brethren, the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.
We find references made to them by Pliny, Tacitus, and Ptolemy, all placing them virtually in the same position. They came into collision with Drusus and experienced a terrible defeat, but in 28 A. D. retaliated upon the Romans, by rising in rebellion against them. They were, however, soon again brought into subjection, and yet shortly thereafter began to expand their borders, absorbing the Chauci, occupying the lands to the southward as fast as vacated by the Franks, and spreading along the shore of the German Ocean to Jutland, where they were known as Strand Frisians. We soon lose sight of them as connected with the Roman Empire, and in the fifth and sixth centuries the Germanic flood swept away all traces of the Imperial dominion over them.
The Frisians did not as a body accompany the other members of the common Gothic stock to Great Britain, but there are scattering evidences to show that many adventurers of that tribe did find a home in those western islands, and copious references are made to their achievements in the ancient naval annals of the islands, as well as in those of the North of Europe in general, but especially in the charming Nederlandsche Legenden of Van Lennep, one of the most gifted poets of Holland.
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