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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Arzi’na.
 
A river that flows into the North Sea near Wardhus, where Sir Willoughby’s three ships were frozen, and the whole crew perished of starvation.   1
       
“In these fell regions, in Arzina caught,
And to the stony deep his idle ship
Immediate sealed, he with his hapless crew …
Froze into statues.”
       
Thomson: Winter, 934.
 


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