Frisia?
| Type: | Elite presence | ||||||||
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| Certainty: | Region Uncertain | ||||||||
| From: | 516 | ||||||||
| To: | 526 | ||||||||
| Original text: | Ny ys leodum wen / orlog-hwile, syððan underne / Froncum ond Frysum fyll cyninges / wide weorðeð. Wæs sio wroht scepen / heard wið Hugas, syððan Higelac cwom / faran flot-herge on Fresna land, / þær hyne Hetware hilde genægdon / elne geeodon mid ofer-mægene, / þæt se byrn-wiga bugan sceolde, / feoll on feðan; nalles frætwe geaf ealdor dugoðe. Us wæs a syððan / Merowioingas milts ungyfeðe | ||||||||
| Translation text: | Now our people can expect a time of war, when the fall of the king [Beowulf] becomes widely known to the Franks and the Frisians. The cause of complaint, a harsh one in the eyes of the Hugones, was created when Hygelac sailed with a naval force into the land of the Frisians, where the Hetware laid him low in battle [...] Ever since then the favour of the Merovingians has been denied to us. | ||||||||
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| Publications: | Storms 1970 Goffart 1997: 84-86 Dijkstra 2011: 366 Wood 1994: 50 |
Sources
| Name | Title | Reference | From | To |
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| Beowulf | Beowulf | 2910-2921 |