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Frisian

Member of a Germanic people of northwestern Europe (Friesland and the Frisian Islands). In Roman times they occupied the coast of Holland and may have taken part in the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain. Their language is closely akin to Anglo-Saxon, with which it forms the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic languages, part of the Indo-European family.

The Frisian language is almost extinct in the German districts of East Friesland, but it has attained some literary importance in the North Frisian Islands and Schleswig and developed a considerable literature in the West Frisian dialect of the Dutch province of Friesland.



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My friend Meindert DeJong looked, to my mind, not unlike an old Viking, though he was really a descendant of Frisians, a Germanic tribe.
Happy centennial, Meindert DeJong! by Hartzell, Judith / The Horn Book Magazine
Because of the importance of the martyr songs in the sixteenth-century era of persecution, and because the Frisians and Flemish outnumbered the Waterlanders (perhaps by three to one), Gregory intends through republication of these "forgotten writings" to enrich the scholarship on Mennonite martyrology, which has up to now been focused too exclusively on Van Braght's Martyr's Mirror.
The Forgotten Writings of the Mennonite Martyrs by Stayer, James M. / Renaissance Quarterly
55) For Frisians studying in Padua between 1550 and 1650, see Zijlstra, 54.
The doctrine, life, and Roman trial of the Frisian philosopher ... by Spruit, Leen / Renaissance Quarterly
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