Excerpt from A Grammar of the Old Friesic Language 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 ...
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Excerpt from A Grammar of the Old Friesic Language 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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