Chapter Fribble to Frithiof of F by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

It is called frisket because it frisks or skips up and down very rapidly - i.e. the pressman opens it and shuts it over with great alacrity, the movement being called "flying the frisket."

Frith By frith and fell. By wold and wild, wood and common. Frith is the Welsh frith or friz, and means a "woody place." Fell is the German fels (rock), and means barren or stony places, a common.

Frithiof (pron. Frit-yoff) means "peace-maker." In the Icelandic myths he married Ingëborg (In-ge-boy'- e), the daughter of a petty king of Norway, and widow of Hring, to whose dominions he succeeded. His adventures are recorded in the Saga which bears his name, and which was written at the close of the thirteenth century.