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Updated: May 21, 2025
They had come, peaceably and without arms, into the country; for they wanted to tell the Frisians about the new religion, which they had themselves received. In the cold night air, they had, unwittingly, cut off some of the dead branches of a tree sacred to the god Fos-i-te to kindle a fire. A spy, who had closely watched them, ran and told his chief.
Her lips were like the red coral, which the ship men brought from distant shores. Her long tresses rivalled gold in their glory. And, because her father worshipped Fos-i-te', the god of justice, and his daughter was always so fair to all her playmates, he, in his pride of her, gave her the name Fos-te-di'-na, that is, the darling of Fos-i-te', or the Lady of Justice.
Fos-te-di'-na refused to beg for mercy and bravely faced the ordeal. She dressed herself in white garments, made from the does and fawns free creatures of the forest and unbound her golden tresses. Then she walked with a firm step to the centre of the market-place. "Bring the thorn-crown for the blasphemer of Fos-i-te," cried the high priest.
Of how and why the golden helmet is worn, this is the story: In days gone by, when forests covered the land and bears and wolves were plentiful, there were no churches in Friesland. The people were pagans and all worshipped Woden, whom the Frisians called Fos-i-te'. Certain trees were sacred to him.
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