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"Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]"
"The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past."
"Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]"
A coastal geographical region in Western Europe, along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including the present-day province of Frisia; see below) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
Common synonyms include: friesland.
Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]
From Latin Frisia, from Frisii (“Frisians”).