FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Freca was a Dunlending noble with Rohirric blood, who held lands at either side of the river Adorn, the border of Rohan, and claimed to be a descendant of King Fréawine of Rohan.
He planned to let his son, Wulf, marry the daughter of the King of Rohan, Helm Hammerhand. Freca marched to Edoras with a great force of men, planning to threathen the King to comply with his demands, but Helm Hammerhand smote him with his fist.
Freca's family and followers fled from Helm's anger, but four years later Wulf returned, invading Rohan with an army of Dunlendings, an invasion in which Helm was killed.
Nevertheless, the slaying of Freca was not forgotten by his people, and even at the time of the War of the Ring, more than two hundred and fifty years later, the memory of his death still kindled hatred of the Rohirrim among the Dunlendings.
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