Frisian

[Stanley Friesen]

At 06:18 PM 1/27/00 -0800, Max Dashu wrote:
>Ed Selleslagh writes,

>>I'm anything but a specialist in Frisian, but I hear and read some from
>>time to time.

>Nevertheless, I'm going to ask you if you know anything about the
>distribution of Frisian in medieval times. I've read that it extended over
>more of the Netherlands than currently, and also towards Denmark.

I have also read this.  I also have it on good authority that the name
Friesen is common as far east as Bremen, which extends the scope of the
tribe, if not the language, into modern Germany.

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