The Dutch Vikings: Frisians Full History

Sources Below My Online Shop Best Patreon on YT Insta Sources Naturalis historia, Pliny the Elder US/CA: UK/EU: Annales, Tacitus US/CA: UK/EU: Germania, Tacitus US/CA: UK/EU: Historia Romana, Lucius Cassius Dio. Royal Frankish Annals US/CA: UK/EU: Codex Unia Gesta Danorum US/CA: UK/EU: Historia de Sancto Cuthberto US/CA: UK/EU: Annales Lindisfarnenses et Dumelmenses Gesta Normannorum Ducum, William of Jumièges US/CA: UK/EU: Heimskringla US/CA: UK/EU: Skaldic Poems Egils Saga/Saga of the Icelanders US/CA: UK/EU: Jus Municipale Fresonum Rüstringer Recht The Frisii were an ancient Germanic tribe living in the low-lying region between the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and the River Ems, and the presumed or possible ancestors of the modern-day ethnic Dutch. The Frisii lived in the coastal area stretching roughly from present-day Bremen to Bruges, including many of the smaller offshore islands. In the 1st century BC, Romans took control of the Rhine delta but Frisii to the north of the river managed to maintain some level of independence. Some or all of the Frisii may have joined into the Frankish and Saxon peoples in late Roman times, but they would retain a separate identity in Roman eyes until at least 296, when they were forcibly resettled as laeti (i.e., Roman-era serfs) and thereafter disappear from recorded history. Their tentative existence in the 4th century is confirmed by archaeological discovery of a type of earthenware unique to 4th-century Frisia, called terp Tritzum, showing that an unknown number of Frisii were resettled in Flanders and Kent, likely as laeti under the aforementioned Roman coercion. The Frisians are a Germanic ethnic group indigenous to the coastal regions of the Netherlands and northwestern Germany. They inhabit an area known as Frisia and are concentrated in the Dutch provinces of Friesland and Groningen and, in Germany, East Frisia and North Frisia (which was a part of Denmark until 1864). The Frisian languages are spoken by more than 500,000 people; West Frisian is officially recognised in the Netherlands (in Friesland), and North Frisian and Saterland Frisian are recognised as regional languages in Germany.