FRISIANS

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.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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