And thus Frode, because of the memory of his grandsire's prosperity, which he recalled by his name, became from his very cradle and earliest childhood such a darling of all men, that he was not suffered even to step or stand on the ground, but was continually cherished in people's laps and kissed.

Thus he was not assigned to one upbringer only, but was in a manner everybody's fosterling.

And, after his father's death, while he was in his twelfth year, Swerting and Hanef, the kings of Saxony, disowned his sway, and tried to rebel openly.

He overcame them in battle, and imposed on the conquered peoples a poll-tax of a coin, which they were to pay as his slaves.

For he showed himself so generous that he doubled the ancient pay of the soldiers: a fashion of bounty which then was novel.