Correct, not so long ago the Netherlands was one of the most free countries in the world, untill the Government surrendered to the European Union and WEF...
Against the will of the Dutch people! June 5th, 2005 was my clue to decide to stay or go and ended up choosing the latter and left in 2007 to Brazil! No country, not even the fatherland, can hold me back to live the life I want to live! The Dutch government committed treason to the Dutch people and should be held accountable for it, not to mention for all the shit they have pulled off after! Let's see if Wilders will be able to restore some of these wrongdoings!! Nexit first to take the rudder back in Dutch hands and when fact compensate all victims of 2 decades mismanagement!!
The Frisians are still fighter (I'm proud of them, although I'mnot a Frisian, maybe I got some Frysian DNA 🤔). Today they are the leading farmers in the fight against the tyranny of the Dutch government that has lined up with the EU and the WEF.
My Opa was born in Friesland. Our family name of Jorna, from research, shows it is Norwegian and is a short form of Jorunna and derived from the Old Norse name ‘Iórunnr’. I find learning about this fascinating and interested to find out how the name evolved and travelled from Norway.
Hey I’m actually Frisian from the province of Friesland. And I really enjoyed this video. You actually said some things I didn’t even know about our history, Although there are some other cool facts about frisia. -we have our own rune’s (futhorc) - we have our own names for the gods Like Weda (Odin) or Thuner (Thor). -we have a badass amulet depicting thuner wearing a helmet (found in Wijnaldum )
Where can a person find out the meaning of their Frisian last name ? I have a very rare last name and catch a lot of heck for it, I've always wondered the meaning
Belgians (The northern Belgians aka Flemish) speak Dutch, so yes there's a connection/brotherhood with people from the Netherlands. However, Frisians are a different breed. Their language is something between English, Dutch and German. We can understand it when it's written down, but it's hard to understand when spoken. Frisians live in the northern part of the Netherlands and they speak Frisian and Dutch.
In my opinion, everything Beneath the rivers is more frankisch, everything above the rivers is more Saxon/Frisian. This is culturally still visible. A good example is catholic in the south and Protestant in the north, even though that is not really a very active part today. But it is still visible in certain festivals
Come to the Island of Voorne Putten, not Frankish at all. More in the south you see what you mention, Brabant, Limburg, so I agree with you, but to a certain amount. If you indeed look at Zeeland it is also very strict Christian, but Den Briel, on Voorne Putten, is realy a bastion of protastantism and later individual freedom.
The genetic difference is there aswel. The distance between north and south is larger than between some neighbouring countries. This is also why we are hard to define on dna ancestry tests. Mine comes back as half scandi a large chunk german and a tiny bit british isles. My family is from friesland/groningen.
@@simdal3088 that for me suggests that you at least have common ancestors with the people who live there. In the Brittish Isles for sure, if you are Frisian/Groninger. I would even dare to suggest that the little Brittish link can directly relate to your ancestors being "Danish" settlers.
I found it really interesting thanx brother. Living in south africa having mainly dutch ancestry . I went now and looked at traditional Frisian clothing. Now I see where my south african boer clothing cones from. I saw old family photos in my grandparent's houses when I was a child, and the clothing they wore and there perants is similar if not identical to Frisian clothing. I speak Afrikaans but I can also speak Dutch and im learning myself Norsk now.
This is an excellent video. You talked about some things I've not heard about before and I appreciate that. The length of the video is just fine. If you are willing to talk about something, then I am more than willing to listen. Even if your videos are all three hours long, I'll still watch and listen. You have great content and you would make a fantastic historian/teacher. I find your videos to be of high quality and well worth watching. Thank you for all of the time and effort you put in to them. Many blessings and best wishes.
You didn't mention that the Frisians were one of the tribes that settle England and southern Scotland along with the Jutes, Angles, Saxons, East Danes etc. Dumfries in Scotland for example was Frisian territory.
Here is some literature for folks who would like to read some books on Fridians: - Redbad by Willem Schoorstra is about the life of the pagan Frisian king Radboud (Redbad) seen through the eyes of his best friend. - The Descendant of Almar Otten mainly takes place in the Deventer of today (and the Saksenland of today) but is about what happened to the Irminsul after Charlemagne defeated the Saxons. - The Edge of the World by Michael Pye, a very readable history book, which also heavily features the Frisian-Norse ties. I'd recommend that one as well. These writers have done a lot of research for their books and for contemporary Dutch readers the books are a feast of recognition. About Redbad, the feared pagan warlord generally thought to have been the last independent king of Frisia: It was during the year 678 that Wilfrid, the recently deposed and now exiled bishop of York, crossed over the English channel to mainland Europe with the intention of travelling to Rome to seek papal support for his eventual reinstatement as Northumbria's foremost churchman. It wasn't to be this simple however and before long he and his men realised that they had not landed in Francia, but the neighbouring land of Frisia; a harsh and unforgiving realm of sea faring raiders and pagan war lords situated upon the very periphery of the Christian world. Much to their relief, Wilfrid and his men were received kindly by the man alleged to have been the overall king of Frisia at the time, Aldegisel, who may very well have been simply one ruler amongst many. Wilfred and his retinue decided to stay in Frisia and winter with the king, and in doing so managed to convert him to the Christian faith, allegedly along with most of the major chiefs and lords and thousands of their followers. The conversion of the Frisian king was a great success for the church at the time, and would be the first step towards the eventual conversion of all the various Germanic peoples, a task made all the more meaningful by the ever present knowledge of the Germanic origins of the Anglo-Saxon churchmen themselves, who now sought to convert their kinsmen on the continent. Wilfred continued on his journey to Rome, content in the knowledge that he and his followers had begun the conversion of the Frisians. Just two years later however, a new and very different king rose to prominence in Frisia. His name was Redbad, and unlike his predecessor, he was a staunch follower of the ancient customs and religion of his people. He was a warrior king and a lord of war who firmly opposed the Christian missionaries and Frankish territorial expansion into Frisian lands for close to four decades. A fierce and charismatic ruler, Redbad is generally remembered as the last independent king of Frisia. Very little is known of Redbad before his emergence as king in 680. Generally thought to have been the son of the previous king Aldegisel, he fiercely rejected the spiritual reform instigated by his father and almost immediately upon coming to power ejected the various Christian missionaries from Frisia. To the southwest lay the powerful Merovingian kingdom of the Franks, under the strong hand of Pepin of Herstal. For almost two centuries since the time of the first Frankish king, Clovis, the lands of the Franks had gradually expanded, incorporating more and more subject peoples into their realm, and converting the new subjects to Christianity in the process. Redbad resented this Seventh Century imperialism and apparently made it his business to oppose the Franks at every turn, expelling them from his lands time and time again throughout his long reign. He was initially successful as Pepin spent the first potion of his own reign in attempting to consolidate his own realm and quell any internal disputes within his large and disparate kingdom. By 689 however he was ready to devote his full attention to Frisia, and launched a full scale invasion with a large army. At the important mercantile centre of Dorestad, the large and tactically superior force of the Franks inflicted a heavy defeat upon the outnumbered Frisians, pushing Redbad far to the east and winning not only Dorestad but the entirety of West Frisia. Over the next two years the similarly important trade centre of Utrecht fell to Pepin's forces, giving him access to the rich trade routes along the Rhine into the North Sea. Redbad was again forced to retreat to the peripheral areas of his realm for a time, possibly seeking refuge upon the island of Heligoland for a time in 697, and certainly retreating to the northern/eastern part of the modern day Netherlands, still known today as Friesland. By the beginning of the Eighth Century, although the Franks had made significant progress into Frisia, establishing a bishopric as a starting point for more conversions to come, vast tracts of wilderness and cultivated farmland still lay in the hands of Redbad and his warriors, who still inspired terror in the hearts of most residents of Frankia. Pepin was either unable or unwilling to wage further wars with Redbad for the rest of his reign, settling instead upon a diplomatic marriage between Grimoald, the son of the Frisian king, and his own daughter Thiadsvind, in an arrangement aimed at keeping the peace between the two distinct cultures, and hopefully in time bring the Frisians successfully into the Christian faith. Numerous attempts were made throughout this period to convert Redbad himself, who refused time and time again. His mentality is perhaps best exemplified by his alleged conversation with Wulfram, an ex archbishop of Sens who tried to convert him in the early Eighth Century. It is said that Redbad's baptism was very nearly successful, only failing upon his realisation that he would not be able to find any of his ancestors after his death, as he was told they would all be in hell. Redbad responded that he would much rather spend eternity in hell with his pagan ancestors than in heaven with his enemies. This uneasy peace between Redbad and Pepin seems to have lasted for close to two decades, but everything was to change upon the Frankish king's death in 714. Seizing his chance to reclaim the west of Frisia which had been claimed by the Franks close to two decades before, Redbad gathered his warriors together and descended upon his enemies for one last time, causing abject terror in his wake and streams of refugees fleeing westwards. He forced the Frankish appointed bishop Willibrord and his monks to flee out of Frisia and advanced his forces as far as the city of Cologne in modern day Germany, where in 716 he inflicted a severe defeat upon the forces of the young successor to Pepin, Charles Martel, who was still very much staking his claim to the Frankish throne. Unfortunately for Redbad however, Martel was every bit the tactician and strategist that his father had been, and after a short time he was able to raise a new force of men of his own which he used to reverse the Frisian gains in just a few short years, compelling much of the Frisian population to submit to Frankish rule once more, and most importantly, allow their missionaries relatively safe passage again. Martel's successes culminated with the death of Redbad in 719 in unknown circumstances, although his followers would continue to wage war against the Franks wherever and whenever they could for at least three more decades, leading a long insurgency against both the Christian faith and Frankish overlordship of their lands. Frisia continued to be a fiercely independent-minded border region for centuries to come, weathering persistent incursions by Scandinavians whilst developing strong trade links throughout Europe. By the Early Modern Period, Frisia was eventually incorporated into the modern nation state of the Netherlands but still harbours elements of regionalist political thinking today.
I get I’m a year late. But thank you so much for this video. I’m Australian but my mother is Dutch and I’m only now getting into learning about Dutch history. Your video is amazing. So informative, thank you 🙏🏼 and it’s given me so many things to look into.
I agree with you about the Dutch girls. 😊 I was with a Dutch girl for a little over five years and out of all my Xs she was my favorite and unlike most of them I really miss her. RIP Mariah.
I loved your comment about "people like to be with their own people" and how today that thought is called "racist". We know from human behaviour that this is true even today in every country and it is clanship. People do self-segregate, that is life and anyone who thinks otherwise is lying to you.
My Pake and Beppe immigrated from Friesland to Canada after WWII, they were a big part of my life and I cherish my Frisian heritage - so thank you for this!
The allies stole a huge part of Europe’s demography after the war, a large share of my family also moved to Canada after the war, because the situation didn’t look quite promising in Europe after being reduced to ruins. Hope you keep your ancestral values alive!
@@heimricvanleeuwen2563 And now you are in Canada because of that.. Btw, I'm from the Netherlands and our country and the rest of Europe was not reduced to ruins. Who told you that nonsense? The reason why some people left, mostly in the fifties, was for work. Many went to Canada and Australia.
@@heimricvanleeuwen2563 it was a few cities in a few countries that was in ruins in Europe, that said there was limited products and the economy had to be build up in many places, a lot of North Americans tend to see Europe as one country, there are however about 50 (the number changed a lot after the was in Yugoslavia and it's difficult to keep up, some sources claim 44 countries (American sources) other say 49 or even 55 depending what is counted, Germany never invaded all of Europe and not all the invaded countries ended up being bombed
I've not seen anyone else call their grandparents Pake and Beppa. That's what we called outs and now I am a Pake to my granddaughter. My father was born in Sneek.
Aha- now the other half of our Dutch & Norwegian family history comes out! Cool. And when visiting the Netherlands, its a wonderful thing to have a Dutch family name......... just amazing. 😎
VanDeMark means "from the border", So you ancestors might have moved in somewhere from a border area (The Mark). Van Denemarke might mean Denmark but also "that border" or even "your border". Denmark is the most plausible explanation though. That name is given to people coming from Denmark and settling in a dutch speaking area, since the prefix "van" is purely dutch.
@@countk1 Direct ancestor stepped off a Dutch West India Company ship in 1640, arriving in what became New Jersey. He was a younger son, needless to say. Started the whole North American family. Adventure!
@@jamesvandemark2086 That was right at the start of what was called New Amsterdam back then :) I am just informing myself about that phase in history. Exciting times. There must be people with my family name there too somewhere, although they might have moved to Canada. We lost a part of our family tree back in the time.
Fryske groetnis út Westergo, Thor! Fantastisk dat'st hjir ek west bist. Frisians and especially the Danes go back so far in history and culture as you showed.( Even from the Bronze Age on.) Great to see you appreciate our ancient bonds and shared history. Verþù heilir, drengr! P. s. Recent archeology shows that there actually was continuity between the Frisii and early medieval Frisians in the province of North Holland. Prehistoric place-and rivernames survived there as well. Think of Heiloo, Diemen, Bakkum (possibly linked to Baduhenna), Koog aan de Zaan etc.
Hi I am Frisian, West Friesk to be exact. I always heard stories from my grandparents about that and we got educated about it aswell on school. Me being Frisian also do speak the language. Frisians do really identify as a separate culture away from the dutch. Oure language is very different as is oure culture. Old stories also include Grutte Pier. Now we are just a province. In Germany there are also 2 states and in Denmark a province that still speak the language too although allot less in numbers and it is very different now and days. The Dutch say that Friesland used to be dutch, well hitler actually made Friesland separate again so thats sort of right but I always point out that all of it used to be Frisian (a.k.a. Frisii. The Dutch and Frisians fought eachother for a while later on in history. Frisii/Frisians did stay whilst there was water, we built mounds called terps where theyn lived on
Yes, my grandmother was the great-granddaughter of Dutch (Zuid Holland) immigrants to America. She strongly insisted that Frisians were not Dutch! You've shared the same national boundaries for centuries now, but those tribal identities are still deep for many people.
The Dutch and Frisians are not different. The Dutch come from the Frisii tribe, and the modern province of Friesland is not the original Frisian identity. Holland is Frisian.
Well I’m Native American Indian but long ago and far away on my Maternal side my Ancestors were from Frisia. So thank you. 🪶 this is very enlightening to my DNA memory.
Thanks! I'm a Frisian heathen and I enjoyed your video very much! Redbad was a badass King and he scared the sh*t out of the Franks haha. I hated the movie though...so not accurate! About St. Boniface and his death as written in the history books. He wasn't murdered by bandits / armed robbers, but he was executed by Frisian pagans. According to the laws of Frisia (as codified in the Lex Frisionum at the end of the 8th century) destroying a pagan temple / shrine was sanctioned with death. And he knew it, because he had a lot of Frankish soldiers with him. The punishment he should've received according to the laws of Frisia (drowning, castration, mutilating of the ears AND offering him to the god whose temple / shrine he dishonoured) was even more brutal, so he got lucky! Frisians were indeed very Viking, more Viking than supposed. There has been a major exhibition about it in the Fries museum in Ljouwert, Dutch: Leeuwarden. The exhibition was called Wij Vikingen, which translates to We Vikings.. I went there and it was great! I'm very proud of our history, our Frisian language, our culture and our desire for freedom. Keep up the good work! In groetnis út Fryslân
Coastal Flanders is a originally mixture of Franks and Frisians. With some Saxon influence and Danes also, you have basically the modern Dutch. Even the Frisians of today are half Franks genetically because of the countless Imperial wars of with Rome collaborating Franks. But according to some sources the Franks also come originally out of the old Frisians in pre historic times.. in that version of history (not the Roman Catholic version of history we've all been spoonfed) the old Frisians are the mother tribe of all Germanic people.. and yes, many Flemings still consider themselves Southern Dutch above anything else.
Great reading :) I am Norwegian and married to a Dutch :) Interesting facts is that the oak poles under Amsterdam came from Norway (and Poland) The wood from Norway was shipped from Åsgårdstrand mainly, same area I am from :)
Hello! I don’t get the honor of seeing very many females on this channel. I’m an American with mixed ancestry & I usually say I’m from the North Sea. Most of my ancestors lived in coastal locations. It’s odd since I’m not a huge fan of fish and deep waters scare me!
he called us german Northfrisians, "Danes" we revolted against the Danish Crown throughout the middle ages .....king Abel was slain just a few miles from me ... many times the Frisia of the Sagas is meant to be Nordfriesland and finds suggesting that we also regurlarly hosted Norwegians ......"Danes".....
You're right about many things, but you're also wrong about many things. Flanders is more fierce than the netherlands. It'd be a close call between Flanders and the Frisians though. Both Romans/Christians and Vikings Lead by example. Both Romans/Christians and Vikings had their Virtues and Vices.
Love your channel. I think I've watched every video on it. Very interesting. Being from Ireland, I'd love if you did a bit on our viking history cause I don't know enough.
Thank you for this information. I'm from the Netherlands and born in Haarlem the north of the Netherlands. But I feel my all life a connection with the Vikings and Scandinavian people. My ancestors also come from Friesland. All the pieces fall together Thank you so much!
Dutch are essentially a Frankish Frisian Saxon mix. More Frankish to the south (Limburg, Belgium), more Frisian to the north and along the coast, more Saxon to the east.
Thank you for this video. I live in the eastern part of The Netherlands which is mostly countryside. A lot of the old pagan religion still exists here in the shape of rural tradition. Our roots are indeed the same as yours. Donar is Thor, Wodan is Odin and Freya is...Freya :)
Frisian descendant here in Tennessee. Thanks to Family Tree DNA I have discovered many things about my origins. This video was very helpful, thanks for all the great information.
I've been been in the Friesland province of The Netherlands many times and know people there. The Friesian language is really nice to hear. However my hands are full with just regular Dutch. The Netherlands is kinda like my home away from home. I also like the Flemish side of Belgium.
You did some serious research ! As one who has both a Frysian grandmother AND a Danish one I found this very interesting. Frysian language is very closely related to medieval English and would be mutually understandable at the time, at least to a great degree. My Frysian grandmother spoke only Dutch and Frysian, not a word of modern English, she COULD however read and comprehend old English texts. My Danish grandmother was an (indirect) descendant of Haldemar (yes I have a framed family tree to prove it) btw. The slaying of Boniface was still taught in schools when I was kid, but I'm fairly sure no longer. Frysian was still spoken all along the North German coast up to Jutland in Denmark up until about the mid 19th century. But the lower-Saxon dialect (still spoken) which would be nearly incomprehensible to modern Dutch speakers, will be understanble to German and even Danish speakers of that dialect. People in the South of the Netherlands people probably feel more connected to the Flemish on Northern Belgium (dialects are kind of similar and it is closer) than to Northern Dutch. The Holland provinces would probably identify more with Frysians. One part of North-Holland is actually technically Frysian and called West-Friesland. For some time now, the Dutch government do all they can to erase anything resembling a national identity, (especially when it comes to ethnicity) in accordance with the EU's plans to realize a "diverse" pan-European identity in which islam "always had, will continue to have an important place". This is from the horse's mouth, what our politicians say themselves. So they more or less try to obfuscate or rewrite history. Anyway, interesting historical stuff ! Great job, man.
Lower-saxon we call it nedersaksisch. Written it is understandable. It does not differ very much from written Dutch. I am a Dutchman from Amsterdam but I often don't understand my compatriots. They speak too quickly and they don't articulate well.
As a native English speaker, Frisian is very much something I can understand. Written or spoken it seems like just another dialect of English. Had I not studied Danish/Dano-norwegian I probably would still be able to understand it to a degree anyways. It's an interesting language for sure. It's not our closest relative language for no reason I guess.
Lol you completely lost it, I learned about the Frisians in primary AND high school in holland AND have bought 2 books at train stations on the subject. And I live in the south of the netherlands. Seems they're doing a pretty bad job at erasing identity. Almost like they're not trying. Oh wait... they aren't. Pity to see fascist comments here regarding replacement theory and blatantly lying that dutch history is being erased. Really, it's BS my friend. You're just afraid of muslims. We have muslims in NL because we badly needed a cheap workforce back in the day. They were put into separate areas in cities so no integration took place and had a lack of educational programs. Making up for that decades later is no easy task. Also, we took in the most conservative and low educated people of turkey and marocco from their rural areas. So yes, there are problems. Conspiracy? No.
finally a reality check up for a lot of Dutch people as well...Tak very well insighted...its what i said to a lot that even our west side was way back a part of Frysia!
I don't know if it was just for me but history lessons in school always seem to skip this part of history. Funny enough, my school did teach about Wodan an Donar. But nothing other about the pagan culture of that time.
@@Fuzz82 Dutch schools basically skip the entire early and high middle ages. So the Frisians and even the Franks barely get connected to the modern day nation. It is a shame
Read the Oera Linda saga book ,to know the story. Walhalla is a place in the Netherland named Walcheren. It was called Walhalgara then. My family tree has a interesting Viking twist in the surname at my mothers side, namely Ruigrok, which is very close to Ragnar and is infact the same in translation. Also a simularity with Ragnarok is very close.
Unfortunately the Oera Linda book was written in the 19th century. So not a credible source. Why it exactly was written is anybodies guess. Nationalism?, a Hoax? Or just a plain old collection of Fairytales? We'll probably never know.
Hello, Belgian woman here! This is so nice to watch and learn. I recently learned that my DNA comes from England and Wales; Scandinavian and of East-Europe. Also less than 3 percent Middle-Eastern, which is interesting. Could this be because of the Viking period or after?
Middle Eastern is likely from the Roman period, at least 200 or 300 years pre-Viking. Roman soldiers stationed in the Gallia Belgica province were always from other parts of the Roman empire, so there's a lot of mixing with Middle Eastern, North African, Hungarian, Greek, etc.
Wow this is a wonderful to know. In a DNA test I came back 1% northern Italian/Rome and it was very unexpected. 99% Germanic. I wonder what the likelihood of having a direct connection with this tribe are.
Mooi stukje nederlandse history,bedankt voor de passie die je in het verhaal stop kan er op deze manier uren naar luister.beter dan de geschiedenis lessen op school👍👊.
From a half-Frisian: It's really nice you bring up our unsung heroes and give them the attention they deserve. No one cares for our origins anymore, but honouring our ancestors and the great deeds they did (fight for their freedom to their own lands and beliefs!) should be done much more nowadays. I for one revere them as some of the greatest people that ever lived.
Tusen takk for informasjonen! I really enjoy all of your content. I've been on a path of rediscovery or my Scandinavian roots, which are quite deep. I even started learning Norwegian as my 5th foreign language. I'm a crazy language learner and I totally did the whole Romance language buy one get one free cheat, plus Russian. My great grandmother was born in Vestfold, Norway in 1882. Her husband was born to two Danish immigrants in the US. I agree we should rediscover our roots especially the people in North America. Without them we are like a ship without an anchor. Plus, when we love and respect our forefathers and culture, we will respect and greater appreciate other cultures. Ha det bra!
No worries old Frisian names are quite common in Friesland. Some of the names in my family: Tjalle, Douwe, Sjoerd, Sierdje, Gerrit, Antje, Gerrit and many many more Thanks for the video, very nice. Our history got destroyed quite well, the church got to educate generations of my ancestors :(
@@wegfarir1963 I have ... but its named to be a fraud ... made up ... though of course it has many parts of truth to it ... but who knows... most of history is made up of lies. Thanks !
My mother's family was of noble descent and was traced back to a rich trader coming to Dorestad from Birka. He also wanted to have his possessions taken from Birka to Dorestad, but the Danish King raided his fleet of three ships full of belongings and tradeware. For fun, my mother's family wrote a letter to the Danish King to ask for 3 billion guilders (some 1.2 billion Euro) compensation. We laughed a lot and never expected an answer. But we got an answer stating that "it was too long ago to be of any juridical relevance". So we had a good laugh about that letter as well. I have to disagree partly on your assessment of the returning of the Frisians in the early middle ages. There is simply no proof for that, while the proof that it were Jutes and Saxons is quite overwhelming (pottery, language, and indirect evidence from Denmark and Saxony). What I think you understate a little is the role the Frisians played in the viking age. New archelogical evidence (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) shows that the "Dutch" frisians were full blown integrated into the viking realm. So also Frisians traded and raided themselves. It must have been the fashion of the day to do that.
Thank you for making this video! We kinda see Belgium as that little brother you love to tease. lol. I used to think only the Fryslan (Friesland) was the part where Vikings lived. But yeah, the Frisian Kingdom was bigger than just Friesland. The maps you showed helped a lot. I'm from the West coast above the Rijn. Roman free. (Ha!)
This is probably why I always feel more connected to Scandinavia than most of my "Hollandisch" peers. I'm slowly getting to this point where I'm going to move out of the Netherlands.
My grandfather is West Frisian, he was born and grew up in Leeuwarden (speaking all Frisian dialects, Dutch, German and English). This was during the Second World War and he had a terrible childhood; dodging bombs, enduring winter, sneaking into Nazi camps to steal food that the Dutch cooks would give, doing anything possible for some food, things that most of us couldn’t imagine. He became the head of the family at 12 after his father and elder brothers were taken by the Nazis to dig trenches and his mother was killed by an English Spitfire while visiting them. He then went on to become the second licensed sharpshooter in the Dutch military and got a free ticket overseas and settled in Australia after serving his time. The Frisian spirit remains strong in him till this day.
I’m a Dane from Jutland and had the pleasure of visiting the Netherlands 3 times. Nice people, could just as well be Scandinavians with a strange language although I actually understands some of it, probally because of common germanic language roots and the low german influence on the Scandinavian languages during the middle ages.
@@Delft1977 actually, heard from a distance, I’ve mistaken Dutch for Danish a couple of times abroad on holidays before I realize it’s not, so yeah, there is a similar soundscape between Dutch and Danish.
Hey. I’m from Belgium. Actually I consider myself Flemish.We used to be part of “ The Netherlands”. Those were the good ol’ days before this artificial country named “Belgium” was created. Although we speak the same language and probably have the same ancestry we are quite different in temperament. Still we both know how to party 😉Oh, for horse lovers. There are these amazing beautiful black horses. Named Friezen. They are still bred in Friesland. Religion wise there are lots of people who are atheist or even go back tot their pagan roots. It seems like at last, after 2000 years, we are getting rid of eternal guilt that has been put upon us by Christianity.
Very good video, as always :-) I have always been fascinated by the Scandinavians and their Viking past. In fact, my boyfriend is Danish. As a Spaniard, you can say that my ancestors were diverse: Celts, Romans and, yes, also Germanic. We had invasions of Germanic tribes and a whole dynasty of Visigothic kings during the 5th to 8th centuries. I would love you to make a video about the Viking raids in Hispania.
As someone who lived his youth in Heiloo. You have a archaeological center nearby in castricum all about the frisians and romans. The forests and dunes near castricum and egmond are very spiritual, and I have seen people walking there with ravens in clothes from those times. It is certainly there that something has happened. Like that battle.
@S. de Vries Heiloo means holy woods and seems to have had role for pagans in the past. Btw long ago a viking tumb has been found during excavations in the village Bergen. It is currently being shown in the local museum.
On the old map Friesia was from North Germany all along the coast down to Belgium. It is older then the Republic of the Nederlandic. The Romans, Crusades', French, Spanish and 40-45 destroyed most of the old heritage.. The dunes/forest between Wijk aan zee and Groet are beautiful, but sadly there is not so much old history left.
I'm from the North of Belgium, West-Vlaanderen. My grandmother is Dutch coming from Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. It's very connected. A lot of people in the North of Belgium have family in the Netherlands. We are speaking the same language and at some point in history we where 1 country. The Dutch speaking part of Belgium was one of the Netherlands
I'm from the southern outback Dutch mountains the area called Limburg... I guess it's a linguistic thing that I kinda feel more related to and familiar with the Dutch Southern areas under the rivers and the Plat Deutsch and the Flemish Limburg. A little more than a century ago Limburg was a Dutchy that stretched over 3 different countries that yet didn't exist in that time period. It stretched from the Dutch Gelder border down into Belgium/Liege in the south and into Germany/Cologne in the east. We all especially the older generations still basically speak the same Dietsch dialect. For example, I can visit Cologne and don't need to speak Hoch Deutsch I simply speak our regional dialect and everybody understands me clearly and vice versa. The same goes for the Northern Dutch, Northern Germans and the Scandinavians... All though we all speak Western Germanic the dialects spoken and words used shift regionally towards each other and are more related... A funny analogy is the Old Southwest German (Pfälzisch) word "Schwetzen" which literally means "talking". In Dutch, we also have the word "Zwetsen" which means "Talking gibberish". The Scandinavian word "Snakker' means 'Talking' in the Dutch Groninger dialect 'Snakker' means 'Talking gibberish'. 😂 The Dutch varieties and their meaning came to be a long time ago from human interaction from different areas speaking a similar dialect but still did not always quite understand each other. In modern standard Dutch 'Snakken' is a verb meaning gasping for air or longing for something with the same gesture. In English and in German, a Snack is a bite, something to eat/put in your mouth. (Norse - Matbit) Actually, a beautiful relationship between different languages with the same linguistic roots. Basically, the same word and it means something different but still, it all comes back to the mouth in all of them. All though I basically do understand Frisian, that is more because I'm polyglot and interested in languages. But still, it's a tad hard sometimes to figure out what they are saying on the get-go.
Or the Swedish word 'pratar' means 'praten' in Dutch. However it is funny when you say in Swedish 'Vad talar du för språk?' what translates in 'welke taal spreek jij?' Talar = spreken Språk = taal
@@fredericverstappen7742 It is not only funny but also has very interesting roots. Talar in Old Norse-Telja, Old Frisian-Tella, Old Saxon(Low German)-Tellan, Old English-Tellan and Old High German Zalon. Still used in modern English as 'To Tell'. The Teller telling the story. It's a summary or account of what happened or what needs to happen etc. given in a speech. Since a summary or account always includes numbers it can still be traced back today to how it is used in modern Dutch and German with 'Vertellen'(Dutch) and "Erzählen"(German) which means 'To Tell' and "Tellen'(Dutch) and 'Zählen'(German) which means 'To Count' In English Tell Time = Tell Numbers. In earlier times an accountant also was named a Teller in English. Sprák in German is Sprache in Dutch it is Spraak and means language. All though, the word 'Prátar' or as the Dutch use it 'Praten' is of a somewhat uncertain origin there are few traces to find in history where it came from. It's suspected that it came to the northwest and stayed there with the Old Norse/Rus Vikings trade route from the eastern Slavic languages where we still find 'bradāt' today in Lituania. The closest Germanic relative we can find is still used today in German 'Pfattern" and 'Papperlapap' in the Slavic languages and in German this means 'Talking Gibberish'. Also in the modern Dutch language a 'Prater or Praatjesmaker' doesn't have a positive connotation. Remarkable how words travel, stay and change and isolate again in use or meaning.
The very first Frisii might go back till the Neolithic period as far as 6500 BC and at that time Doggerland was still dry land between the Netherlands and the British Isles! Quite recently they've fished up spearpoints, mammoth and Lion remains on the Doggerbank which suggest that there was a rich vegetation and rivers! The Frisii, although a seafaring people, might just have walked to the british Isles in those days! Any which way, thank you for your time to research and this very informative upload 👍
Being Dutch (having Norwegian ancestors as you may tell from my last name), I live in the south in the province called Limburg. And on the other side of the Dutch/Belgian border there is a region called... Yes, Limburg. We don't consider ourselves Frisians, but definitely share a cultural identity with our Belgian neighbors. Dutch and Belgian Limburg used to be one region but got split in 2 in 1839 ("Treaty of London").
We (Limburgians) always had strong anti-central (Holland) sentiments and wanted to be a break-away, self governing nation within the German empire since early 1700. The Buckryders (Bokkerijders) were a pre-revolution semi-revolutionary movement to achieve just this goal. Struggles went on in this region for quite a while and took a heavy toll on most of the folk, being farmers and other rural living people. Limburg has a rich history of being a torn up region, suffering the whims of other nations and being thrown around by various foreign government elements resulting in some very dark times.
@@Waldtyr1 The Limburg region of The Netherlands was confiscated by Holland for one purpose only. To benefit the port of Rotterdam by disrupting a major trade route later called the Iron Rhine which was a freight railway crossing Limburg and connecting the port of Antwerp (Belgium) with Mönchengladbach (Germany). And with confiscating what's today The Netherlands Limburg this railway needed to cross 2 borders and become partially nonoperational. disrupting and lame a major part of the Belgium/German trade. If the Iron Rhine didn't exist we probably would have been Belgium or Germany today. 😂
In 536 AD the Krakatua exploded. This is important, because this caused the movemend of the northern tribes southwards and into England. Please explore this, it is on youtube ❤
FINALLY!! I've been waiting. I found out around 3 yrs. ago my mother's family is Frisian. We always knew we were Dutch. Then I did a ancestry DNA test and started researching where they were from, Groningen. I found out we're actually Frisian, I had never heard of these people, but now I am so proud!! My mother's maiden name is Swarthout, Zwartwoude in Frisian. I almost have tears in my eyes. Thank you so much!!
My ancestors were from Oostwold, east of Groningen. They were headmen. My family is named, Hemmens and related to the Hemmens Huninga van Oostwold family. We had a castle with a moat in Oostwold.
In the movie they made redbad look silly. He let everyone he should have killed live! His uncle, the prince/frankish king, the priest. I mean how lame! 🤯
My dad's entire family is Frisian, and the family is divided in two last names, one of which literally translates to "From Over The Sea". I did a DNA test last year and found that I have a deep rooted Scandinavian heritage. The two things combined make me incredibly proud, and also kinda explain why I have long hair and a full beard at mid thirty,
Are the Dutch, Frisians, and Saxons still a similar people? I'm a Saxon (and very proud of my ancestry and my tribe) and I've found a lot of linguistic similarities between dutch and Plattdeutsch
Yes, there are similarities, in the east of the Netherlands quite a lot of people speak Low Saxon. Low Saxon or West Low German (German: Niedersächsisch) is an officially recognized language in the Netherlands and Germany and consists of a group of non-standardized Low German dialects.[2] East Low German is very related but according to the definition does not belong to Low Saxon. Low German, on the other hand, can be regarded as an umbrella term, although West Low German and East Low German are also referred to as Low Saxon together. The Low German dialects are mainly spoken in the northern part of Germany and in the northern and eastern parts of the Netherlands (the provinces of Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, the Gelderland regions of Veluwe and Achterhoek, in Utrecht east of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, on Urk in Flevoland and in the Stellingwerf and around Kollumerpomp in Friesland). In addition to Limburgish and Frisian, Low Saxon is one of the three official regional languages in the Netherlands. Unlike Frisian, Low Saxon does not have a normative, overarching unit language. Therefore, unlike Frisian, it does not have the status of a 'second national language'. As with Limburgish, there are a large number of local variants of Low Saxon. The lack of a unitary Low Saxon language also leads to divergent spellings of the different dialects, despite attempts to arrive at an overarching unity spelling. Low Saxon Low Saxon, Low Saxon Spoken in Netherlands, Germany, Denmark speakers 2.2-5 million[1] (Germany) and 1.6 million speakers at home in the Netherlands (2.15 million in total) Language area including East Low German. Both areas together are sometimes referred to as Low Saxon. Since 1998, the Netherlands has recognized Low Saxon as a language, under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The Low Saxon Covenant came into effect in 2018, whereby the regional governments in the Low Saxon-speaking part of the Netherlands indicate that they are committed to preserving and promoting Low Saxon; however, this is not legally enforceable. Since 1998, Germany has also recognized Low Saxon (Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch), under the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages. In the European Union, Low Saxon is an officially recognized regional language. The language code (ISO 639-2) of Low Saxon is nds.
Dutch people don't even consider Frisians Dutch. They actually have been repressed for a long time by the Dutch afaik. Also the Dutch and the Dutch speaking part of Belgium (Flemish) don't consider each other as "the same" culture wise. I believe this is because the Belgians have been subjugated to more foreign influences, in particular the French under Napoleon Bonaparte. Basically everyone in Europe choose Belgium to be his or her best location to wage war. Last example was Germany... twice...
But did you actually visit the Frisian province? If not, please do so as you can learn a lot there even if it's even flatter then the rest of the country haha. I am born in Friesland (although the direct father on son family line comes from Norway), but I don't really see Belgians as Dutch or Frisian. HOWEVER I would love to see Belgium and Luxemburg being reunited with the Netherlands. I would love to see the German part of Friesland being returned to us as well so we can border Denmark again. But for Belgium all the way to Lile (France) was once Magna Frisia. There is a nice story about how some Frisii made a trip to Rome, completely ignoring the Roman soldiers, got a show where emperor Ceasar was present at the same show and let them enjoy the show without getting any guards involved. Let them go free as he thought it was a gutsy move and wanted no trouble. This for just 2 Frisii warriors. They did manage to get back home without any trouble from what I understood. I don't know to what level this story is true however, but knowing the Frisii... The chances are rather high, haha.
A very much unknown thing that was so nicely talked about. Viking and such are worldwide known to be in England, Sweden, Norwegian and Denmark, but not the Netherlands. Thank you for bringing light into these most forgotten chapter! I am a German who moved/migrated to the East of the Netherlands. Here were the Saxons till they were fought and pushed back by the Frank's. My fiancee and me plan 2024 to marry in the old ways and therefore we started some history studies of the past and our roots. You said that there were even Pagan's and Viking inland more?! Is it possible to get the sources for this from you? Anyone else is also welcome. All we found was that Here (Province Overijssel/Area of Enschede) was the Tubanten/Tuihanti, a germanic saxon tribe who fought against the Roman's with their paigan brothers the Usipetes and the Marser or Marsi. Where I am from (the Area of Dortmund) is Westfalia or 'Westfalai' homelands of Saxons. Thank you again for this great video!
Flanders Belgians are considered "Dutch" in the sense of being part of the culture of lowlands of medieval and later times until the separation in 1830, but in a genetic and cultural related sense the north provinces are really separated from the southern ones (obvious traits are hair, skin and eye colour). The genetics lean far more to Scandinavian origins then the Frankish or Gallic or even Saxon or Germanic haplotypes, in my family my brothers and sisters have 50% of Scandinavian markers, of my half brother and sister I do not know, that would allow me to tell whether my biological father, my mother or both carried the Scandinavian markers, since my mother was from current day Friesland, while my father was from Groningen, close to Ost-Friesland (Germany) Its complex, but as a geneticist I think the DNA will reveal most of the peoples descent, while with written or passed on information one always has to be careful since its full of subjectivity, DNA always remains objective when placed in proper context
My dad has done extensive research on our family tree dating all the way back to 800 AD. Although we are presently considered 'German' (our family came to the states in the 1920s) we are Frisians based on the family tree (done through actual research not the new websites lol) And according to my dad, we have deep roots in the vikings.
Velkommen alle sammen. Now I am understanding this. I am German and I didn't know what you said in the beginning. If you listen more carefully you could interpret your words as German I was thinking 😊"Willkommen alle zusammen"
That explains a lot to me. My herritage dna says 63.6% Scandinavia and 36.4% Northwestern European, including the most Frisian. My father is partly Zeeland my mother is a Friesian. I couldn't understand Scandinavia how? I even thought my mother cheated on my father. Thank you for your explanation I am very happy with it. Greetings from the Netherlands
Paper of Discussion von Gunnar Hounshell England, Land of Englist? My first point of argument to find, was if there were any Angel and Sachsen/Seaxon who invaded England? There are the people of Seaxon so called the Westseaxon, near relatives of the Friesians, but they call themself Angelcynn, are they the Angels themselfs? And are they the Angeln/Anglii of Tacitus of Schleswig-Holtstein? Angeln is piece of land enclosed by water. The area you can find in Schlwesig-Holtstein, do they come from there? Or form the today Neatherlands too? you also can find this kind of land here, but it´s not known if they come from there, but the genes tells us they have had to. The byzantin historian Prokopio (560) worte in his work about the Gothicwar, from the Britan island: There differnd tribes lives there on the Island of Britania. They tell us, every one of them had their own King. There names of the people are the Angeln, the Friesians and the Britons, which give the Island the Name. populous Angiloi, Phrissones and Brittônes Gothic war IV chap. 20 No Seaxon. Thomas Shippey mentioned the early English called themself Engle or Seaxon but their language were only englic not seaxisc. The Westseaxon call themself Angelcynn. (refers to Frisian cynn, kinsmen, kinship) History of German = Deutsch page 326 Is the origin of the word Sachsen/Seaxon form Seax the sword, Saxum latin for Rock or form Mitisahs (Bach)? But it isn´t used in such a way in old english, friesian or german. There is the question, is there a another meaning of Seax? Penetrator? Intruder? Penis? Gender? Should be Sexualem/Sexum the origin of Seax/Seaxum and not Saxum? In German Gender Geschlecht got a meaning of sex and the house of... or the clan of... Could be Seaxum got this meaning of the clan of../kinship? Conclusion Seax is named after the carrier, not the carrier after the sword. When we have a look at a map of England, we find Wessex, Sussex, Middlesex and Essex. We could translate them directly with Saxum/Sax as origin to Western Sword, Southern Sword, 2 Center Sword or Eastern Sword or with Sexualem as origin as the Western Gens/clan Southern Gens/Clan. Center Gens/Clan and Eastern Gens/Clan Sexualem not Saxum are origin of Seaxum? So Seaxum are the Gens of….? The name Saxons or Saxones appeared for the first time in contemporary sources in the year 356. Probably this Saxon is the name of a confederation of the Reudingi and the Aviones tribes north of the River Elbe, Germany. The Romans spoke, in the Late-Roman Notitia Dignitatum, about Saxon piracy along the Litus Saxonicum ‘Saxon shore. The question is whether the word ‘saxon’ as used by the Roman and Greek writers implied there was also a Saxon people, a Saxon identity. The term ‘saxon’ was used both for people living in Great Germanica as for people living in Romania. Early-medieval sources even spoke of Saxons in the southwest of Gaul and in Italy. But evidenty the sources were not consequently talking about a tribe or of people. A theory is that the word ‘saxon’ originally was used to denote a group of individuals, type of warlike people, people who carry swords. An umbrella to denota Rauscharen or raiding parties (Springer 2003; Flierman 2021). Meaning of pirates, robbers, raiders coming by ship (Springer 2003). Another explanation for the word ‘saxon’ is that it meant warriors belonging to war bands (Steuer 2003) Emperor Lothar I. who in the year 850 spoke of “gens Saxonum et Fresonum commixta” (‘mixed Saxon and Frisian people’), describing the people living in the north of his empire, and expressing there was, seemingly, not much different between the two tribes (Flierman 2021). In the lost places of the Dollar at the border form Niederlands and Germany, are two village called Saxum and Saxumerwolde How are the Angels? Are they realy the decendents of the Angeln of Schleswig-Holtstein? I found two source text Eggerik Bening (1520) he called of the old chronial „Engelske Chronica“ Year 435 The Friesians under there King Engist conquerd Britania, Vortiger, King of the Britons, saw he could not withstand the Friesens, he negotiated a treaty and peace with the King of Friesia. Engist got the land he have had taken. De Fresen mit oren konig Engisto Britannierland ingenamen und als nu Univertigerus, der Britannier konig vernam, dat he de Fresen net blyven kunde, makede he enen anstand und frede mit Engisto, der Fresen konig. Engistus averst hielt de lande in, de he erovert hadde … Volledige Chronyk chapt. 23: The first king, who was elected by the engistians Friesians in England, was Germund, he ruled 40 years, after his dead they chose a Friesian called Elle as there King, he ruled 30 years. After the end of Elle they elected Ethelbert as there King, he ruled 57 years, in his govern the Pope Gregor sent St. Augustin to England. Den eersten koning den de Englistische Fresen in Engelandt koeren, ist geweest Germundus, he regende England 40 jaar, Na sinen doet koeren se eenen Fresen wedder tho eenen könig, genoemt Elle, de regeerde 30 jaar, Na konig Ellen afschedent koeren se Edelbartus tho eenen koning, de regeerde 57 jaar, daar man schreev 599 sente Pauws Gregorius Sunte Augustinum in Engelandt. 4 When we take this cronicles as origin for the therm England, we see the King Engist, the Land of Eng, England We see also Englaland, Engle land, Angle land, Anglia in Latin. Angleterre in France. Ængla land, Middle English: Engleland, Englelond, Engellond, Scots: Ingland, England , Westfrisian. Ingelân, Frisian: Ingelân Eastfrisian, Engelland. Dutch: Engeland, Low German: Ingland, Engeland Ingelland. Only the Weles challed the English as Saxons, better they called all germanic tribes as Saxons. Offa was the fist who got the title Rex Anglorum in 774 a. Chr. We got the therm Engle/Angel, could this ending -le and le be the meaning fo ianer/niets? As a labelling for Followers/Allegiance? For the man with the name Eng/Ang? The Chronist Marcellinus says (17) Egbert was concerned about the salvation of the Frisians and Saxons from them the Angeln descended. Egbertus sitiens salutem Frisonum et Saxonum, eo quod Angli ab eis propagati sunt ( Vita S. Swiberti) Herr Professor Dr. Wolfgang Haubrichs point out that here is a similarity to the Hero of the Finnsaga Hengest/Hengist. Possible that they are one person. In time passing, the H lost or the H was added to the name in the saga. And the Finnsaga was to glorify King Engist. In the sagas are no mention of Seaxon and Angeln, only Frisian, Jutes and Denes. Although it took place only a couple of years befor the invasion, why this two importen tribes was not mentioned? Or could we misunderstood Beda as he wrote Angelseaxum? The meaning of Angelseaxum is not two tribs merged into one, he is just toke over the terme from the Franks who distinguished of Anglisaxone from the Antiqui Saxones because a distinction had to be made to avoid confusion with the Saxon of tribes the Nordalbians, the Angrians ,the West-Phalians, and the East-Phalians? 5 There is actually no real support for a massive immigration, neither historical nor archaeological (Oosthuizen 2019) There are specific spots in East-England and Kent were confronted with a relatively mass influx of settlers whilst most other regions of east and southern England were less affected (genetically) at first. Is there any prove? In the genetic shows us there a strong conection to the Frisians. DNA research also points to close kinship between the new Frisians and the Anglo-Saxon or Germanic settlers in England. Research shows the Central-English and the Frisian DNA-samples of modern men are statistically indistinguishable (Weale 2002). The research concluded that substantial migration of Anglo-Saxon Y chromosomes, thus including Frisian chromosome material too, into Central-England had taken place contributing 50 to 100 percent to the gene pool at that time. To put it bluntly, the Central-English have more in common DNA-wise with the Frisians than with their close Welsh neighbor. Yes, one in six of today’s males in Central-England descends from the new Frisians. DNA research into the East-England population reveals that 38 percent derives its ancestry from Anglo-Saxon migrants closely related to modern Dutch and Danish populations (Schiffels 2016). It is estimated a quarter of the population in East-England was an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ immigrant. Others make a more modest estimation of the influx of Germanic genes, with an early-medieval increase of genetic markers between 15-20 percent, with specific kinship with the inhabitants of modern province Friesland (Brooks & Harrington 2010). And other research estimates the genetic contribution to southeastern England from Anglo-Saxon migrations to be under half (Leslie, et al 2015). The language English and Frisian got many matches. Siegfried Hopkes got a catalog of over 300 frisians words with direct matches with english words. (Book of Friesland and England). And he noticed that the ending of the Names -by and -thorpe are more friesian like than scandinavian like. So the space of colonization of the friesian is much bigger than anticipated before. Proved by the genetic examination of the english population in the previous years.
Fun fact: English derives from a dialect of Frisian. It was adopted for trade/business because of the simplicity and directness it offered when communicating with foreign areas.
No, while (west) Frisian is the closest language to modern English, English is derived from the language of the Anglo-Saxons. More specifically, the saxons.
My ancestors were Frisian Grietmannen, in charge of the court of law in peacetime, and in charge of organizing the militia and the distribution of helmets, scabbards and swords in wartime.
2:40 As a Flemish from Flanders (dutch speaking region of Belgium), I consider myself part of the larger Dutch people and related to the Frisians. But do not consider myself related to them as the modern dutch do (since they intermingled more with them).
There's a museum in Leiden (a beautiful city near The Hague), the Museum of antiquities. It's huge and amazing. The last floor is dedicated to Netherlands' story. It's a very interesting place to visit if you like history!
Top video. As a Dutchman i am proud of my Frisian for parents and iam just as pagan as them i have read a lot about my Frisian for parents . I live in Vlaardingen near Rotterdam and in Vlaardingen planks were found from a Danish viking ship that were used to make a coffin the other rest of the wood was used in a church greetings from the Netherlands 👍🤘🇳🇱🇳🇴
@Brandon Letzco 'for parents' is the litteral translation from Dutch 'voorouders' .... and 'forefathers' (voorvaderen) sounds a bit archaic. I would refer to them as 'ancestors' :)
"Tûzen tank foar it meitsjen fan dizze fideo!" I'm Frisian myself (half Scandinavian and half English DNA) and it's interesting that you use Dutch and Frisian interchangeably. Most Dutchies are not aware of their Frisian past and I wish they would be more considerate. History is written by the victors and in case of The Netherlands this was mostly the perspective of imperialistic Holland. Holland has been at war with the Frisians all the time with the aim of conquering their lands but they never fully managed to do so. They succeeded to defeat West Frisia in the 13th century but in the 14th century they unsuccessfully tried to invade central Frisia. East Frisia was mostly taken over by the Saxons. The powerful city of Groningen was key in the disappearance of Frisian language and culture. Currently Frisia is still going strong but we could use a little more help from Europe and the Dutch government to build up a true bilingual Frisian-Dutch infrastructure. This way the Frisian egalitarian freedom loving spirit is preserved for the generations to come. After all these years the provinces of North and South Holland are still very dominant and regard the province of Fryslân/Friesland/Frisia as inferior. History tends to repeat itself over and over until we become aware of the powers that control our thoughts...
Every map of European tribe locations is different. The Romans recorded the names and vague locations. But they generally put the Frisii north of the Zuider Zee area. Romans settled their friends from the Chatti tribe into east-central NL roughly Utrecht to Arnhem.
@@daneaxe6465 I agree, but take in the fact that in the North, above the Zuider Zee they worshipped Nehalennia, the Goddes of Safe travels for seafarers, people would take an apple from around the area you speake of, and on the Isle group I live, those seafarers would sacrafice it to Nehalelennia before embarcing on a sea trip to who knowes where. This happened during the Roman times, there is plenty of evidence for that. So I suggest that the Dutch seafaring people above Brabant and Limburg, got a good foothold on the Isles what we now call Zeeland and the isles of Voorne Putten and Goeree Overflakkee.
Let me elaborate, you can destinct the mainland Netherlands in 3 parts, you have Holland, North and South (but don't count the islands), then you have Zeeland, Brabant and Limburg, maybe count in Utrecht(Southern part of it) and then you have the northeast to south west connection, from Friesland and Groningen, Drenthe and Gelderland over what is now the Ijssel, into the Islands above Zeeland.
The Frisians gave rise to the English (or at least made huge contributions to the English identity - one Germanic peoples 💪🏻 As one with both English and Scandinavian ancestry I am always so saddened by the fact the Germanic peoples of England capitulated to Christianity.
Very good youtube channel, i like watching your videos and as a Martel i would love to ear you talk more about the franks even if they clearly are not the most loved germanic nation.
1 The vikings never existed, there was never a group or nation or ethnicity operating under the name Vikings. The pillaging by small groups originating from scandinavia did exist but they themselves never used the name Viking. In other parts of Europe there were also tribes or groups who pillaged their neighbours so same behaviour but not the same people. 2 Also The Frisii and the Frisians are not the same thing, The Frissii got their name by the Roman empire and it is a latin name so probably not the name the inhabitants of the northern part of netherlands used themselves. The Roman Empire named the area (northern part of Netherlands) Frisii but in reality the Saxons/Juten and other germanic tribes inhabited that area only a smal part was occupied by the Frsiians themselves if you even can call them that in those days. 3 An ancient form of the frisian language was formed in the 10th century AD at that time the Norseman and Danes were not present anymore in the northern part of the Netherlands. They owned land in the Netherlands at the end of the 9th century AD, the last attacks on the Netherlands by the danes or norseman was in 1007. In those days the frisian language started to develop so the timeframe is totally off. End conclusion the whole Frisii Vikings is not true and is made up, not only because of the fact that Vikngs never existed but also because the Frisian and Frisii are two completly seperated things. Many Frisian make the same mistake in these days, just because the Roman Empire gave a region the name Frisii does not mean that frisians were the only tribe living in the northern part of the Netherlands. In the biggest part of the former Frisii region they never spoke frisian but saxon dialects. When you go to ost-Friesland (germany) they speak the same or very simular dialect as spoken by Groningen/Drenthe and Twente. There is a small area in Danmark and Germany were they do speak a frisian language but mostly the Roman Frissii region was inhsbited by saxons and other germanic tribes.
