Eala Frya Fresena ( East Frisian Low Saxon IPA: [ˈeːla ˈfrɪja ˈfreːzəna]) is the motto for the coat of arms of East Frisia in northern Germany. The motto is often mistranslated as "Hail, free Frisians!", but it was the reversal of the feudal prostration and is better translated as "Stand up, free Frisians!". Eala Frya Fresena ist ein friesischer Wahlspruch und wird gelegentlich als zentraler Ausdruck der Friesischen Freiheit hervorgehoben. Er soll am Upstalsboom, einem mittelalterlichen Versammlungsplatz nahe Aurich, von den versammelten Friesen ausgerufen worden sein. Die Redeweise ist jedoch erst im 16. Jahrhundert belegt, und nur als Trinkspruch.
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Eala Frya Fresena ( East Frisian Low Saxon IPA: [ˈeːla ˈfrɪja ˈfreːzəna]) is the motto for the coat of arms of East Frisia in northern Germany. The motto is often mistranslated as "Hail, free Frisians!", but it was the reversal of the feudal prostration and is better translated as "Stand up, free Frisians!". "Eala Frya Fresena" - "Rise up, Free Frisians," according to Tilemann Dothias Wiarda (1777), wasspoken at the Upstalsboom in Aurich during the Late Middle Ages. Since the mid-19th century, Frisian nationalists tend to answer it with "Lewwer duad üs Slaav", or "Better dead than a slave." The saying "Eala Frya Fresena" is first attested in 1585 by Cornelius Kempius as "eele ffrye ffryse" for West Frisia, the area west of the Lauwers - a small river running roughly north-south on the border between the Dutch provinces of Groningen and Friesland. In 1617 it was mentioned in writing as "Ela fria fresena" (or fresa). Nowadays, the most used East Frisian coat of arms is that of the counts of house Cirksena. It was created by count Rudolf Christian in 1625 and contains the emblems of the most important East Frisian chieftain houses, which were related by marriage or power to the house of Cirksena.
