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Frisian, people of western Europe whose name survives in that of the mainland province of Friesland and in that of the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands but who once occupied a much more extensive area.
These people would eventually be referred to as 'Frisians' (Old Frisian: Frīsa, Old English: Frīsan), though they were not necessarily descended from the ancient Frisii. It is these 'new Frisians' who are largely the ancestors of the medieval and modern Frisians.
6 Οκτ 2021 · Some of the texts contained in it are not original, for several reasons: the scribe must have had more than one exemplar before him when he compiled his anthology, as appears from his including two different versions of the same text. A very high proportion of texts in Frisian are legal texts.
25 Αυγ 2018 · Summary. The story of Frisia and the Frisians is one of a changing landscape, people, identity and name, as well as one of constant connections across the North Sea. For an understanding of the pre- and proto-historical Frisians and their archaeological traces, we first consider the changing landscape that they inhabited.
Historical and legal texts from as early as the thirteenth-century, for example, already expressed the idea that the Frisians formed an exceptional nation which, based on their efforts for Church and Christendom, had earned the freedom or right to govern themselves without the intervention of a sovereign lord.3 In some sources Frisia is even ...
From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian".
5 Ιαν 2009 · This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and...
