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And to the discipline which he instilled into them; to his ability in marching and manoeuvring troops; to his care for their food and for their transport, possibly, also, to his training them in that art of fighting on horseback in which the men of Wessex, if not the Anglo-Danes of the East, are said to have been quite unskilled, in short, to all that he had learned, as a mercenary, under Robert the Frison, and among the highly civilized warriors of Flanders and Normandy, must be attributed the fact, that he and his little army defied, for years, the utmost efforts of the Normans, appearing and disappearing with such strange swiftness, and conquering against such strange odds, as enshrouded the guerilla captain in an atmosphere of myth and wonder, only to be accounted for, in the mind of Normans as well as English, by the supernatural counsels of his sorceress wife.
It is related of this fierce monarch that he was converted by a Christian missionary; but, at the moment in which he put his foot in the water for the ceremony of baptism, he suddenly asked the priest where all his old Frison companions in arms had gone after their death? "To hell," replied the priest.
And I have seen him! Frison lifted up his eyes and his hands and drew in his breath 'Ah! I have seen the King look shabby beside him! And his eye! I would not like to meet it now. 'Pish! I growled. 'Someone has fooled you. Men are wiser than that. 'So? Well, your Excellency understands, he answered meekly. 'But there are no cats on a cold hearth. I told him again that he was a fool.
He wondered at their long shaggy beards, and still more at the blue patterns with which the English among them, Hereward especially, were tattooed on throat and arm and knee. "Yes, you are Vikings, just such as my Uncle Robert tells me of." Hereward knew well the exploits of Robert le Frison in Spain and Greece. "I trust that your noble uncle," he asked, "is well?
Omer, living in the same street, passing each other day by day, and never spoke a word one to the other. Robert the Frison heard of it, and tried to persuade Hereward.
I suppose I had an odd look then, however, for Frison stopped me at the door, and asked me, with evident alarm, where I was going. I put the little man aside gently. 'To the tables, I said, 'to make a big throw, my friend. It was a fine morning, sunny, keen, pleasant, when I went out into the street; but I scarcely noticed it.
Are those wondrous eyes not fashioned to surfeit themselves upon the homage and respect accorded the wife of a great lord? Ouais, the thing is indisputable: and, therefore, I must differ from Monsieur de Frison here, who would condemn this perfection to bloom and bud unnoticed in a paltry country town." There was an interval, during which Matthiette gazed sadly into the mirror.
There rode down the street Robert le Frison in full armor, and behind him, knight after knight, a wall of shining steel. But by his side rode one bare-headed, his long yellow curls floating over his shoulders. His boots had golden spurs, a gilt belt held up his sword; but his only dress was a silk shirt and silk hose.
In 1026, William Traillefer, count of Angouleme; in 1028, 1035, and 1039, Foulques the Black, count of Anjou; in 1035, Robert the Magnificent, duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror; in 1086, Robert the Frison, count of Flanders; and many other great feudal lords quitted their estates, or, rather, their states, to go and not deliver, not conquer, but simply visit the Holy Land.
The counts of Holland and the apostolic nuncios addressed their acts and rescripts indiscriminately to the nobles, clergy, magistrates, judges, consuls, or commons of Friesland. Sometimes appeared in those documents the vague and imposing title of "the great Frison," applied to some popular leader.
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