The Frisian landscape was a deathtrap for large armies. Moving vast armies into territory that exist mainly of saltmarshes that are flooded every six hours - so you can settle your armies only on small islands, scattered. Plus it is very difficult to explore, while your enemy knows it from A to Z - and will make good use of that knowledge. It's a nightmare for an army that relied on quick movements (Caesar conquered Gaul mainly because of his speed of action - and his ability to divide and conquer which even Rome itself wasn't up to). Frisia was however dependent on that big Roman market, so influence doesn't always go the military way.
As a Frisian myself, I have to say that I am moved aswell as educated dear lady! I can give you this, that fire/figthing sipirt/lust for freedom that you convaid I reconize aswell within myself as my fellow Frisians! I had never thought/realised that Frisia played such a big role in the development of the Dutch culture. What I can do are two things, one, thanks for the informative and inspirational presentation (even if it was a assignment, that I hope you passed with flying colours, you did in my book!). Second, I leave you with a old Frisian saying: leaver dea as slaef (beter dead then a slave), to hopefully show you how accurate your assignment is and give you the courage and inner fire you gave me! Have a wonderfull live and enjoy your teaching job! 😁
Wow, thank you so much for writing such a detailed comment, Erik. I appreciate your feedback and knowledge! :-) Haha, I did indeed pass my assignment - an A, yay! It was so much fun to do this research since I'd only really focused on the time period of Willem van Oranje (and anything after that) in school. I don't speak Frisian, so I really think it's cool of you to share an actual Frisian saying. It's interesting to me to see how history impacts today, and a quote like the one you shared has a greater message that it appears to be at first. ;-)
Education is power, so hopefully people will be less ignorant in the near future. :-) Everyone can learn from one another. It's cool that you're teaching yourself Frisian. I'm sorry your parents didn't teach you when you were younger, but it's never too late! I noticed speaking a language requires a greater skill set, but being able to listen and understand is impressive in itself. I cannot understand Frisian at all. Lol! I'm glad you enjoyed my video. I really appreciate that you want to share it with others; That's really kind of you. :-)
I knew Friesland had a different dialect, but didn't know until more recently that Frisians are an older people than Dutch with an older distinct language (instead of just a province of Dutch people). I didn't know how great Frisia once was-thank you for the research! I have read that Frisian is closest to Old English-good to preserve the distinct language. I do know of Dutch who can't understand the Frisian speech. Maybe I will try to learn it!!
Yes, I have really struggled to find Frieisian history written by Friesian people and source documents. It is all things people say about us which is all across the board and sometimes very confusing and mostly contradictory. I think I have gotten to the bottom of that part. It looks like because we were traders and an autonomous type area we may have taken on dissidents from other places similar to how America takes in political dissidents and all sorts of people. Is that correct? I also want to know more about the interactions with the royal families and the interactions with the trading companies. Any suggestions?
@@topaz898989 there is an entire book in Beowulf dedicated to the Frisians. You might after that study the Magna Frisia and afterwards you can visit Groningen to learn from the university where Frisian is a course. Good luck! This specifically is about West Frisian.
2:00 don't you mean, just The Roman Empire? Since the Holy Roman Empire is a completely different empire in a different time...that got me really confused for a second.
DIMIX Well, they fought with both. The holy Roman empire was ruled by Charlemagne and the Frank's. King Redbad fought off the Frank's and their forced conversion of Christianity for many years.
I, as an Englishman, I will always admire and respect you guys as I am proud to call brothers and sisters, alongside the Dutch, Germans, and the Scandinavians. Peace :)
Samuel_* I'm sorry you feel that way. As a Noord-Hollander, I want to let you know I love the long history of the Frisians. Keep holding on! Let the haters hate. 😉
Bedankt om de video te maken! je confirmeert iets waar op ik aan het hopen was namelijk dat zelfs het hele schelde gebied van de Friezen was en ze een prachtige landbouw en handelscultuur hadden.... komen er heel goed uit in de geschiedenis van europa als handelsstam... From Antwerp with love!
Nice research project and presentation. For much more detail on Frisians and the trading empire they helped to develop all around the margins of the North Sea in the early Middle Ages I recommend Michael Pye's book The Edge of the World.
I'd also recommend "Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours" by John Hines and Nelleke IJssenagger, and "The Excavations at Wijnaldum" by Bestemann, Bos, Gerrets, Heidinga and de Koning".
"It was at the time that king Charles (Charlemagne) began to rule. Then there was in the district of the Saxons Liudingerus, a very strong lord. He wanted to equip himself so strongly that he would get king Charles' empire. Also wanted he to do more; he wanted to bring the strong Frisians under his authority. He ordered in whole his realm that he should be called mighty king. As king Charles became aware of this, then he was angry inside. He announced to the Frisians whether they with him would start a fight against the new king. The Frisians gathered; on this message they took a good decision. The Frisians very strongly went to the district of the Saxons. The Saxon lords became aware of that; they came to meet the Frisians on the field. Then they fought so grimly they slew the Saxons both the poor and the rich. But at last they caught the best of the Saxon lords and knights. Those they tied so much with strong fetters. Then they lead them by force where they found king Charles in his realm. When king Charles heard that the Saxon lords came to him all tied, he was very glad in his mind; he welcomed the brave Frisians. He then took them in his palace and served them both mead and wine. The Frisians left the kings' court; they arrived in their country with high praise. So you have heard how the strong Frisians then fared against the Saxons. There after it occurred at a time that the Roman lords began fight against king Charles. They wanted recklessly to keep the tax of the kingdom. The king severely announced this in whole his kingdom. They came all together who were in his realm, relatives and foreigners. As the Frisians heard this news they came to the kings court without being asked. There they came in useful because they had the courage of a brave lioness. There they spoke to the king heroically they would fight alone against the Roman lords for the empire. They took the sharp swords in their hands and placed themselves in front of the castle. The lords inside the castle saw this; they went to fight against the Frisians on the field. An ordeal was begun; many valuable fighter was then there slain. Then at that moment the Frisians violently began to fight upon the lords. Frightened the lords then looked back and all of them flew quickly to the castle. The Frisians followed with determined mind, that they would win the castle with force. But at last they won the castle and the best of the lords. People began to close the gates, but king Charles and his troops were outside. The Frisians took a decision; they would give king Charles both castle and garrison. The king thought to himself how he should repay the brave Frisians with some goods for this enormous action. First of all he gave them a great gift. Twenty coins of fiery red gold that the Frisians should give the empire yearly as tax That gift that he gave the Frisians, that should always and forever endure. Besides he commanded imperially that no lord should force them by power. Unless it were that they would do it by their own free will that they would accept a lord. But I don't think to myself, that they by own will would recognize a lord. The king was not satisfied with this order, the authority of the holy pope he added to it. He then asked it the pope that he would put the Frisians under clerical rule. He forever excommunicated all those that the Frisians caused any trouble. There commanded king Charles publicly that the Frisians should choose new judges every year. He put the imperial crown on their head, therefore he ordered to shave them. But if they did not want to do that, they were allowed to let their hair grow freely. that all people might see then that he has made them free. He commanded them then kingly, all Frisians that were strong and rich, that they should receive an accolade on their white neck; After that he should always be knight. He should carry a very nice weapon; on his shield he should paint the royal crown. That he this gift had given the Frisians for ever for that he took to witness kings and dukes and many other high men. But at last, That the descendents should know forever, in the letters it was written about the gifts, that nothing should be forgotten. The seal was of fiery red gold, that all people should know that this gift should exist forever. This letter they gave the free Frisian in his hand. With pride and with honour he went back to his own free country. In this way all people may understand that king Charles the Frisians has made free because of that strong fight."
I'm a Brit living in Gelderland. Some of my Dutch friends have a Frisian background, and they're all very proud of it. I did the 'Fietselfstedentocht' last year, so saw all of the 11 cities. You can check out my video of it. Love the flag too! Oh, and I also heard that for an English speaker Frisian is the easiest language to learn. Best of luck to you.
It looks like the Frisians held the line against Rome and later the Franks. I'm an Anglo-Celtic American. My Anglian ancestors and I thank our Frisian brethren.
Love the information - I'm an American, with English, German, Dutch and French roots. I'm proud to have a common bond here! Great video, and I hope that you will make more videos!
old comment but still. did you take part in the grutte pier project by tresoar? Where you submitted part of your family tree, and they would see if you were connected to Grutte's family tree. Seems I am a full cousin 16 times removed of his, one of the grandchildren of his uncle Tyreck Sybrantz. Bonga from his grandfather's side. There was a fun festival in kimswerd. Seems through Grutte I have extended family all over the planet.
I didn't even know what a Frisian was till I looked up the meaning of my mothers maiden name Thole and found out it was Frisian..... Now I'm obsessed with them. Just a small number of badasses.. lol... Thanks for sharing
That's so cool! I'm glad you found that out. Learning about family history is interesting. Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and write a comment.
Rather dead than slave. Once upon a time I was able to read and understand Nederlands. Which came because I was able to understand and speak Suerlandisch.
My last name is Frisard and my great grandparents migrated from the Rhineland between France and Germany because of the constant wars between those two countries and the many sons who were lost during those wars. I'm reaching out to any other Frisards in America and Europe . I'm located in another below sealevel town , New Orleans, which suffered the major flood of Katrina in August of 2005.
Fryske (Frisian) is such a beautiful language and the people are amazing, true freedom lovers. Wonderful video, thanks for uploading it here! P.S.: Your English is perfect, congrats! Fryslân boppe!
@@joalexsg9741 Haha, thank you for saying that. 😇 That's sweet of you. I love learning new things! And anyone I meet and connect with has a lesson that I can learn from. 🤗
Frisians are the people of Freya. Freya (supposedly) taught Frisians the deep importance of freedom. She is the mother of the Frisians. To this day our motto is: Leaver dea as slaef Rather dead than slave
I like that your references include an article about Het Oera Linde Boek. There's a lot of interesting background in the story of that book; maybe you'll also find it interesting enough to make a video about that.
I would enjoy you doing a review of " Redbad." or even the older film "The Warlord" These films gave an interest in Frisia. You did an excellent job. Succes!
I so appreciate learning this. According to my DNA most of my ancestors came from Friesa, Denmark, & England. I am an American and am fascinated with our ancient history of the Netherlands/Friesa. Plus my great-great grandmother was born in the Netherlands.
Thank you for your history lesson. My grandmother was born in Boazum, Friesland 1895. I just got back from a trip to see where she lived as a child. I appreciate knowing more about them.
My mother is from Friesland......i was born and raised in West Friesland. My father is from Kabyle in Algeria.....thé Kabyle People are like the Frisian. They have their own language and culture. Make Friesland great again....
Yamina Bouhas I found out not that long ago that my bloodlines are Frisian. My last name is Bouma and I noticed that yours isn’t far off. Just thought that that was pretty cool.
I'm writing this comment in English, but i am Frysk. thank you for making this video! I am very interested in what you know. Where did you learn all this? and also its very nice to see that young Frisian woman show interest in their heritage. you dont see that alot. I myself live in Den Haag but I'm very eager to learn more about the my ancestors.
Jesse Thank you so much! I am Dutch and I am from Hoorn, Noord-Holland. When I studied in the U.S., we had to do a research project on an ancient civilisation. I wanted to learn more about the Netherlands before Willem van Oranje and the Spanish. I was very interested in learning more about the Dutch inhabitants during the time of the Romans. Thank you for watching and for taking your time to comment!
Thank you for taking your time to watch the video and comment! I appreciate that a lot. :-) To be honest, I learned most of this during the research I did for this exact project. I was born and raised in Hoorn (Noord-Holland), and I loved history. I was lucky enough to have great history teachers, and when I studied in the US I decided to look into that part of history that all my teachers seemed to pass by many years. I love learning about heritage and culture, and it teaches me more about the very far away roots of where I come from. PS, Den Haag is awesome! I visit the city some times. ;-)
@@k.b.392 I know alot of Frisian farmers went to Canada, the US and New Zealand after the 2nd world war but I only know people who have family in Canada and New Zealand but two of my uncles visited Texas to meet up with some farmers that still have family here. I worked for a farmer who has a family in New Zealand for example. A lot of farmers moved because making a living here became difficult during that time I think but I'm not sure if that is the reason.
@@erwinj9697 Peter Stuyvesant is Frisian. Hofstra University is named after a Frisian. MANY Frisian came to America. Most surnames ending with -stra, -sma, -ga, -ma are Frisian. De Vries de Fries) surname is the #1 Frisian surname, Hoekstra & Dijkstra #2 & #3. It is my belief the surname Dijkstra was changed to Dykeman; to people at Ellis Island, the ' ij ' looked like ' y ' to them when written in script. Mata Hari was Frisian. (Jane Fonda, TRAITOR) Fonda is a Frisian surname.
Thank you for a refreshing and sparkly testimony of your Frisian background. It's exactly as I feel it myself, being Frisian from my mother's side, who was born in Holwerd, right on the Frisian North coast. Like you, I'm quite determined in achieving my goals and patience served me well, in order to prepare for and make the journey overseas with a one way ticket. I live in Devon UK now and although I feel much at home where I am, my Frisian roots are in some peculiar way happy with this choice of location. I wish you the best of results in study and work, travels and marvels at what you'll explore and find out in life, with that attitude. Kudos!
Marian B. Thank you so much for your comment. That is so cool that you've got Frisian roots yourself. 😊 I am glad your decision was the right one. I like the UK a lot!
Thank you so much for watching! History is interesting, isn't it? The Frisians definitely fought back. Thanks to them (and my family's history of course), I can call myself Dutch now.
@@phyliciajoykloes Great! As the Romans said, "Historia est vita memoriae et magistra vitae" :) Even the Polish Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel "Teutonic Knights" mentioned "Knights from a distant Frisian nation who live by the sea" :)
Terrific video! You put a lot of time into making this, researching, etc. Thank you. Greetings from the US, and sadness as well -- because this video reminded me of a place in my heart, and my own ancestors -- Hindeloopen. Someday I will return to that magical village -- and just breathe, and be. Dank u wel!
This announcement does not have the purpose to hack this video, but only serves as proof. "The principal Proto-Germanic branch of the Indo-European family tree is R1b-S21. This haplogroup is found at high concentrations in the Netherlands and north-west Germany. It is likely that R1b-S21 lineages expanded in this region through a founder effect during the Unetice period, then penetrated into Scandinavia around 1700 BCE (probably alongside R1a-L664), thus creating a new culture, that of the Nordic Bronze Age (1700-500 BCE). R1b-S21 would then have blended for more than a millennium with preexisting Scandinavian populations, represented by haplogroups I1, I2-L801, R1a-Z284. When the Germanic Iron Age started c. 500 BCE, the Scandinavian population had developed a truly Germanic culture and language, but was divided in many tribes with varying levels of each haplogroup. R1b-S21 became the dominant haplogroup among the West Germanic tribes, but remained in the minority against I1 and R1a in East Germanic and Nordic tribes, including those originating from Sweden such as the Goths, the Vandals and Lombards." ruclips.net/video/6jucjXsbdiA/видео.html&lc=z23jinzh0ufrhfs3sacdp435lxjyyiqpt4pvao4je5pw03c010c.1534775163415880
Extremely interesting. Are you familiar with the Nordwestblock hypothesis? Before Germanic and Celtic was spoken in Low-Countries and Western Germany there are some indications that they spoke a Venetic language in this area (say around 500 BC).
As a Mennonite, much of my roots come from Friesland, as well as the rest of the Netherlands and Germany. Was very interesting to see what my ancestors did back in the day!
Oh wow, thank you for watching and leaving a comment. Thanks for sharing that. :-) I am glad you enjoyed. I am currently reading Call Newport's Digital Minimalism and the Amish and Mennonite communities were mentioned as technology use is more intentionally thought about and chosen for use. May I ask how you enjoy browsing/using website(s) like RUclips, and how it adds value to your life? If you don't want to answer, I'd respect that. However, since I am more aware of my own screen time and want to minimize that, the question arose after reading your comment.
@@phyliciajoykloes You're welcome! I tend to spend a little too much time on RUclips and just the internet in general to be honest haha. I have been really working on minimizing how often I go on social media as I can, and so for it's working out pretty well.
Just some ideas for further video's, Civilis and the Batavian revolt 69-70AD. And Frisians vs Holland in the dark ages 5-7th centuries. Keep it up I am a big fan
I was always told that my background was from Friesland, a province in Holland. I have been learning more about my background (and the history of my name). One thing I recently learned was that Frisia was the birthplace of Vikings and that they got their beginnings trying to fight off the French and other conquering nations. Its because of the Vikings that Frisia held onto its roots and did not bow to other nations
Thank you so much for this video. I have found out that my ancestory is a direct to Frisia, so this video helped me understand my bloodlines. It is amazing to learn that an Oklahoman from farm country has a pretty impresive history. Thanks again for a great video!!!
Thanks a lot for this wonderfull explanation of my Fryske Groun, and i am proud to be a real Frisian and i am living in a wonderfull city called Heerenveen
You ignored totaly the East-Frisians and North-Frisians in Germany on the east-side of the river Ems. I'm East-Frisian and there is more frisian history. Before the Battle at Teutoburg Forest 9 A.D. the frisian harbour Amesia ( City of Emden / Germany ) at the eastside of the river Ems, was besieged or attacked by roman military to get taxes for Rome from there. This was one of more reasons later, why Arminius fought against Varus at Teutoburg Forest. After this battle and the following Germanicus-campaign , Rome stopped the expansion to the East of Germania and the river Ems was the natural border to protect East-Frisia. The west side of the Ems was occupied by the Roman Empire. Frisian tribes were also involved at Teutoburg Forest. The native german East-Frisians have the closest genetic code with Anglo-Saxons in East-Anglia and Northumbria in U.K. today. The East-Frisians and North-Frisian tribes lived together with the Anglo-Saxon tribes, who went later to Southengland and founded the 4 early christian english kingdoms. The North-Frisians at the border to Denmark, on the island Helgoland and the North-Frisian Islands were long time indepedant and allied with the danish vikings. The viking trade post Haithabu or Hedeby in Schleswig-Holstein/ Germany was a settlement of frisians and vikings ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedeby_Viking_Museum ). The danish vikings invaded in the anglo-saxon terretories in U.K.. The East-Frisians were often in conflict with the Low Saxons of Oldenburg/Germany. I grow up in Friedeburg/ East-Frisia. Friedeburg was a frisian fort or castle at the "Friesischer Heerweg"/ Frisian Army track ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesischer_Heerweg ) at the border between the occupied saxon terretories of East-Frisia ( Friesland in Oldenburg, or Landkreis Friesland today) and East-Frisia. The North-Frisian language is a sign for long independance of the Frisians, and alived on islands in Germany, because Helgoland in the higher North-Sea of the German Bight was sometimes danish/ british or at the end german. Also the North-Frisian Islands were sometimes danish, prussian and at the end german. The gouvernments for these islands changed often, but not the North-Frisian dialect. The North- and East- Frisian history is very interesting for people in U.K. The East-Frisian language, Sater-Frisian, alived only in the Saterland in Germany after the 30 years war. The protestant monk Martin Luther was the first, who translated the Holy Bibly in a german language ( Modern Standard High German), and the Saterland ,enclosed and isolated by swamps, were the borderland between the catholic Emsland and the protestantic East-Frisia after the 30 years war. That's the reason why East-Frisians are speaking East-Frisian Low German or High German of the saxons, because they read the protestantic Gutenberg-Bible. The East-Frisians were often working immigrants in the Netherlands later, that we called here "Hollandgänger" or "Frieslandgänger" after the 30 years war. Otherwise Frisians from West-Frisia came to built dutch channels / "Grachten" and cultivate the landscape in East-Frisia, Emsland and Oldenburg. A lot of of villages in East-Frisia have names with "..... fehn" at the end, like Großefehn, Petersfehn, same like in the Netherlands ".......veen" for Amstelveen. We call this "Fehnkultur"/ veen-culture, a dutch influence. Also, you forget to say, that the people spoken a Low German dialect in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, familar with the East-Frisian Low German and the Low German of Oldenburg in Gerrmany. The Netherlands were first independant after the 80 years war with Spain and the 30 years war, and dutch started to be the standard language. It's also interesting, that parts of East-Frisia, Jever, the Wangerland, and the East-Frisian island Wangerooge were spanish and went after the 80 years war to the low saxon territory of Oldenburg.
Friesens Diecastcollection Wow, well spoken. I appreciate that you took the time to write all this. You are right, though. I only focused on the Netherlands.
It´s important to notice that mainstream scholars are still in denial of the true nature of the Northumbrian and Cumbrian dialects, i.e, regional Germanic languages in themselves, and not dialects of English. I believe these two are actually derived from Old Northumbrian, the true Anglian language, since it would be absurd to think that the Angles would speak a hybrid language, Anglo-Saxon, when they still had their own, the Angle's tongue! It is a shame that to this day the classic works found in Old Northumbrian are still called as being written in a 'dialect of Old English'. I would not be surprised if some studies found that Old Frisian would show even more similarities with Old Northumbrian and even between the modern phases of these languages, despite the different influences on their lexicons through time. I think Scots also evolved out of Old Northumbrian and not as some try to put it as a 'dialect' of English, so the three, Scots, (modern) Northumbrian and Cumbrian are the modern developments of Old Northumbrian. www.northumbriana.org.uk/langsoc/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbrian_Old_English ruclips.net/video/cbwcTyM_Xq8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/3wVCJUQmTAM/видео.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbrian_dialect www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Cumbria_Traditions/tradition_view.php?tradition=language_and_dialect_of_cumbria www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk/ cumbriadialect.blogspot.com/ Of course there was also the Celtic language, Cymbric/Cumbric, but this is another beautiful story of the Indo-European saga.
You have talent for this. It reminds me of early videos by some of the famous RUclipsrs I’ve seen like PewDiePie (in terms of quality). With improved skills I think you could get there. By the way, don’t they still speak Frisian in the Netherlands county of Frisia/Friesland? Some parts of Germany too I believe. From what I recall there’s 3 major versions of it still in use, with many less common sublanguages as well. By no means a dead language, despite more divergent variations like English, Dutch, and Afrikaans being more main stream.
Thank you for your comment. That is such a compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and see potential. Yes, you are correct! Frisian is still an alive language in the Netherlands. I don't speak it, unfortunately. It is funny, though, how people have come onto my path who have Frisian roots. I am not familiar with the different versions of Frisian.
Have you studied the Frisian language? I'm about to begin learning, and there doesn't appear to be a proper course out there for it. I'm getting an introduction from the university of Groningen, but it's going to be bad, so I have to make my own course to learn it. If you've succeeded in your education, and you speak Frisian, and you're interested, you could come help. :)
I actually havent learned the Frisian language. How exciting that you're going to learn, though! It's surprising that they don't have proper classes to learn the language. I currently teach, but I dont teach Frisian. 😉
You should try NHL Stenden University in the city Leeuwarden (capital of Frisia). 45mins ride or 30min trainride from Groningen. Alot of people in NHL university actually still speak Frisian as their mothertongue and are bi- or tri-lingual in Dtuch Frisian and English. NHL has a Frisian language course as well. Since people here mostly either speak or understand Frisian daily you will pick it up really fast here. I am half Melanesian and half Dutch, grew up in Frisia and even I speak the language sufficiently for day to day conversation just by living here. So: NHL Stenden University
As an Englishman, did you notice that Anglo-Saxon military epic Beowulf is predicated largely on conflict with the Frisians :0 I wonder if it's because they weren't christian
Pardon me. But Friesland wasn't conquered. But there were trading posts here in Friesland. Franeker is the famous one. I know you do understand Dutch very well. Hope you can read Frisian as well. I hope the article still does excist. This was about the trading posts in Friesland. The article is in the paper called Friesch dagblad. (It was published over 10 years ago). I know because I worked for a few years at Friesch dagblad.
The maps of Friesland are also incorrect. The southern part reached out what is nowdays nothern France. Dunkirk. The nothern part reached in now days Den Mark. Those border lines from nowdays wiki page (related) sites are gambles and/ or incorrect. The best are real old libary books (who are totally are and well preserved).
Very inspired by your ancestors and how they made a lasting rich cultural heritage! Please keep honoring your heritage and have a big family to keep it going! 🌸💗😃
An interesting point of view and some interesting information. The Frisians were not the first on those lands. They are a germanic people that seem to have followed behind the celts for the Indo-European invasions that occurred about the bronze age and into the early iron age for western europe. Old English seems to have a greatest affinity for modern Frisian. When the Frisian tribes got to low lands perhaps they displaced the original hunter gatherers that were there. Or maybe there celts had already done so.
Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to write your comment. It is interesting for sure. It makes sense for other people to have inhabited the land before the Frisians. History is so interesting! There's way more to discover. This is an interesting research question: who were the people before the Frisians that inhabited these lands?
@@phyliciajoykloes The lowlands were probably quite similar to what use to be doggerland. For hunter gathers it was likely a resource rich area. But farming it does take more work for sure relative to drainage and you go into what it took to do that. As others have mentioned it is a difficult terrain for invading armies.
Hey, the map you give at 1:42 is sort of wrong. Frisians did not cross the River Ems before 600 or 700 AC. Quite the opposite: the Chauci which later formed the Saxons settled west of it. This is why people in the east of the Netherlands speak Nedersaksies and not Nederfranconian: As the Chauci/ Saxons left the coastal and River marches to conquer Britain, the Frisian started to take that land.
Thank you for your feedback. To be honest, I wasn't too picky choosing photos to add to my video when I edited this video for my research project at school. I appreciate you took the time to watch and comment. I'm glad you liked it.
12 BC, the Romans discovered Magna Frisia. Prior to 400 AD when floods came many Frisians migrated to Kent, England & Flanders. BUT the Kent, England Frisians moved back to Friesland at some point. Frisii are the original Frisian people. "The Frisii (Old Frisian and Old English: Frīs) 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 Frisians. The Frisii were among the migrating Germanic tribes that settled along the North Sea in the 4th century BC. They came to control the area from roughly present-day Bremen to Bruges, and conquered many of the smaller offshore islands. In the 1st century BC, the Frisii halted a Roman advance and thus managed to maintain their independence. In the Germanic pre-Migration Period (i.e., before c. 300 AD) the Frisii and the related Chauci, Saxons, and Angles inhabited the Continental European coast from the Zuyder Zee to south Jutland. All of these peoples shared a common material culture, and so cannot be defined archaeologically. On the east they were originally bordered by the Ampsivarii who lived at the mouth of the Ems until AD 58, at which time the Chauci expelled them and gained a border with the Frisii. The Chauci to the east were eventually assimilated by their presumed descendants the Saxons in the 3rd century. 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 lands of the Frisii were largely abandoned by c. 400 due to Migration wars, climatic deterioration and flooding caused by sea level rise. They lay empty for one or two centuries, when changing environmental and political conditions made the region habitable again. At that time, settlers that came to be known as 'Frisians' repopulated the coastal regions. Medieval and later accounts of 'Frisians' refer to these 'new Frisians' rather than to the ancient Frisii." The Frisii were the indigenous people of the Netherlands & countries along the North Sea. BTW, I read that artifacts were found in western Netherlands that are supposed to be of Frisian making & date back to 1750 BC.
Not all the lands were flooded and not all Frisians migrated. Als always, the sick, the old, the invalids, the poor and their caretakers with a skeleton crew to keep things up and running, stayed behind. And these Frisian people were later on 'replenished' with other (new) Frisians who came later. But they came from the same lands in Germany and Denmark etc. were the 'first' Frisians came from. They were the same people. The king of the Jutes did send taxcollecters to Frisia for a very long time because he saw them as 'of his peoples'. So, even the 'new' or 'later' Frisians are real Frisians and very related to the 'first' Frisians who went away for the floods. Just like the Turcs came in a few waves from the Asiatic steppes of Russia into the land that today is called Turkey. But in that country lived Greeks, Armenians, Kurdish tribes and Hebreeén peoples. In the lands the Frisians came there lived nobody, but it wasn't possible. We, the Frisians made in possible by draining the swamps. We took our land from out of the sea (North Sea/Frisian Sea), but the Dutch developt our land winning techniques and made international fame with us. They always did steal from us and pretented it was theirs. Typical Dutch.
@@janpopkebouma7194 When I was in Hamm visiting my mom's cousin, Heinz, I mentioned on my dad's side I am Frisian. Heinz told me along the North Sea in Germany are people who speak another language; Frisian. I read that these Frisian consider themselves Frisian FIRST, German second. BTW, my dad's 2nd cousin, Roelof Boltje, dredged/made the Copacabana. Look up R. Boltje en Zonen on youtube. There are about 18 videos of him & his business. There's a plaque at the Copacabana Beach with our name on it.
@@janpopkebouma7194 The nerve of the Dutch to FINALLY make the Frisian language an OFFICIAL language in 1955. Mighty white of the Dutch, ya think???!!! Frisian language is OLDER than the Dutch language...!!!! I found out last year via AncestryDNA that I am 6% Euro Jew. I narrowed it my my dad's side. I think his Frisian dad, my pake. I was told my pake's ancestors actually immigrated into Friesland from Giethoorn around 1750 AD for the peatbogs. These people are/were called Gietersens. Through research I found that Giethoorn was settled 1230 AD by fugitives from the Mediterranean area. Could they have been Jewish...???? I did find info stating that these fugitives were flagellants...YIKES...!! My dad's 2nd cousin, Roelof, dredged the Copacabana. My surname is BOLTJE not Boltjes. However, I did find info about a man, Tjeerd (??) Boltje, who gave the surname Boltje to some of his kids & the surname Boltjes to other of his kids. Weird. I have been able to trace back to my 5 time great grandfather, Hilbrand Boltje; don't know the year. BUT have traced the surname BOLTJE to about 1625. www.tresoar.nl & www.allefriezen.nl . De Vries/De Fries (The Frieze/Fries) is the #1 Frisian surname. Dijkstra & Hoekstra; 2nd & 3rd most common Frisian surnames. My great Beppe's surname was/is Waterlander.
The frisisans are rooted from the visigoths and before them the scythians. The scythians nearly destroyed Egypt on multiple occasions. Everyone feared scythians.
During Roman times, there was Lacus Flevo, a freshwater lake. In 1287, it was flooded the day after St Luicia's day. This same body of water became the saltwater Zuyder Zee (and Amsterdam became a sea port). I would love to know more about the ship making techniques of the Frisians, I am assuming that they shared ship building techniques with their Scandinavian neighbors (so something like the Hjortspring boat?).
Correction: it was only after around the year 400, the start of the transgression period, when large parts of The Netherlands became flooded by the sea.
The sense of community and goal focus yiu speak of is a strong Frisian cultural heritage we call in Frisian "Mienskip" (gemeenschap) There are several Frisian leaders such as Grutte Pier king Audulf (who fought off the Franks) and the king Redbad (radboud), as well as the king Finn Folcwalding who, together with his Frisian army, is mentioned in Beowulf too.
1) The Frisians are still here and their ethic decendants make up about 20% of the dutch population living mainly in the north of the country. 2) The roman empire and the holy roman empire are not the same thing. The holy roman empire is an 9th century coalition of german dutchies and kingdoms that was formed from east francia and did at most of it's time include the netherlands.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate you took the time to type that. I am aware I made that mistake about the Holy Roman Empire. Also, I was aware of the first fact; however, the percentage I wasn't sure of.
There are only some 300.000 of us left, the rest is Saxons or Hollandic Dutch or so called ´city Frisians´ who are mainly anti-Frisian half-Dutch former immigrants from other Hanze cities.
@@janpopkebouma7194 My grandparents are from Emden but I am American. Most of their siblings still live there. Does that make me real? Where do the others live? It seems there are three groups. Very religious evangelical Dutch in Iowa and MI, tiny amt of moderate Lutherans in South Dakota and maybe Canada, and Catholics in St Boniface Minnesota. Does that sound right? Do they all get along?
@@topaz898989 Emden is in the northern part of Germany, but these are old Frisian grounds. Our people lived from the northern part of France right up to Bremen-Hamburg and then up the shoreline of western Denmark. "Does it make you real?" I don't know what you mean. You're of Frisian parents, so that make you Frisian by Germanic tribe, if your grandparents were 'real' dna-frisians. When your grandparents were immigrants from a former German colony in Afrika, for example Namibië, then they just lived in Emden as foreigners. - American is just an administrative-juridical status, it is not a people/nation/tribe. It's a fake construct, just as Nederlanders/Dutch. - I speak of nations/people/tribes/natives, and Frisians, Juten, Schwaben, Skandi, Saxons etc. those are tribes, those are real nations, with a big part of their people/members still dna intact. But dna isn't everything of course. You also have to look like a native and speak like a native. But when you make up a people/nation with all kinds of people just to bind them together via a new administrative-economic-juridical system, because you want to 'steal' or 'integrate' the people you defeated in their lands, or you want to incorporate a lot of other stolen people, like slaves, then it doesn't matter what dna you have, everybody can become American or Netherlander/Dutch, because it has nothing to do with the original tribes you stole the land from. Frisians in the Netherland, Schwaben in Germany, Skandi or Sami in Sweden are just the same as the native Indian tribes in America. With the same problems, with the same losses, with maybe even more suppression. We don't even have 'reservates' or 'safe spaces' just to be our selves with our children.
We are harassed on a daily base via our own children with our 'destroyers' because of the Hollandic schools, or via the television with only Dutch programmes, or via international progressive left/liberal pressure to mix all the peoples toghether in one big melting pot with all our little tribes/nations and languages/cultures and traditions/folklore (festivals, songs, poëts etc.) rubbed out of existance only because we are white. Foreign/imported minorities like Arabs (700 million worldwide) or Turcs (200 million worldwide) are getting subsidies to learn the language of their (grand)parents, and we are only a few hundred thousand worldwide, we can't learn via our own taxmoney our own language. This is evil.
Very interesting, I didn't know their language influenced Latvian as well! I've got Norman and Scanian ancestry but there's probably some Frisian in that..
thank you young lady, the y dna in my father's line seems to originate in freesia, so it was nice to learn something about the ancient peoples I am descended from
ik houd van je video. ik weet niet hoe Frisian ben ik, maar mijn naam heeft Nederlandse geschiedenis. Sorry for my Dutch, your video is very interesting.
Ontzettend bedankt! :-) Your Dutch is fine; I totally understood what you wrote. I'd recommend looking into your genealogy, and I bet you'll discover some interesting facts!
andthenifellinlove yes, I have done some research by geneanet. My grandfather's family was from Leuven and my grandmother's family frontera Terveuren, both in Belgium. Sadly my name has been changed just a letter, instead of Vanderhoeght, Vanderhoegft. But that makes a little difficult go farther on the past.
I'm glad to hear you gave it a go! And that's so interesting. Do you know why the change of letters occurred? Did your family move to another country or region when the name changed for the first time?
andthenifellinlove It was around 1800 but I'm not sure why. I think that f was changed by gh in an error of scripture. I am currently living in Uruguay, my grandparents came here after the second world war.
Wow, crazy how an error remained to exist! I'm sorry to hear your grandparents had to leave the Netherlands after World War 2. I wonder if your grandparents have come back to the Netherlands at all after they settled in Uruguay.
Moin from the saxonian netherlands - a small enclave on german territory, where the people still speak twente platt. In all directions you find here another lower german dialect or speach. northwest are the west frisians, north the east frisians, east the amsivarii, southeast the munsterländer and south the chauks. all sound and spell a bit different, but you can head along the coast far, far east to prussia - and will still find people, you can understand without problems. the midage "hanse" culture could be reason for this wide spread.
I am also from the Netherlands. Now living in the US since I was 5 years old I was always interested in history but what we were taught things that were not accurate they never gave credit to Cornelius Schouten who discovered Cape Hoorn. My mom is Frisian.
Hey! :-) I've been inactive for too long; I'm sorry. I'll be working on footage to upload for you, so stay tuned. I'm doing well, though. I hope you're doing great yourself! :-)
Good presentation. The Frisians were awesome warriors, awesome vegetable & dairy farmers. As an Anglo-Saxon I am sure I have Frisian ancestors. Hold on to your Dutch identity.
I'm Dutch and i say it's bullshit to be proud or feel connected to our ancestors or nationality. We are nothing like them, we did nothing at all. And if the Romans had really wanted to they would have wiped out the lot of them. But it was just an insignificant far away place and they had plenty of other wars to fight they considered more important. Just like they had only marginal interest in parts of Britain for a while and simply figured "screw the rest of that place, we don't care about it". It's only inflated egoism when people say we are so damn proud...we are so badass just like the old tribes that lived here...bla bla bla.
Interesting thought. I am Dutch too and not Frisian, but I was interested in researching the part of the Netherlands where I was born. Everyone differs, I think. I believe it probably has a lot to do with how someone's raised. For example, when I hear my grandmother's story about how her grandfather walked away from the Germans during the WW2, I feel lucky to be alive since live happened in such a way where today happened to be today. I am not saying I am like my ancestors. I find it interesting that you got that from the video.
@@phyliciajoykloes Hey there. I'm a total history fan myself! And i wasn't really adressing you as much as some of the comments really. To me it is idiotic being proud of where i was born. Flag waving and nationalism is a scurge in history that has tortured and killed millions...stupid pride and all included. It is idiotic being proud of your ancestors like the Frysians. We may as well be proud of the Heidelberg people 600,000 years ago or the Dutch resistance under Nazi ocupation but we had nothing to do with that either. It's interesting you mention WW2 because the Nazi's made desperate attempts to search for reasons to be proud in their (faked) history as well. That should ring alarm bells for anyone... My grandparents were both resistance heroes who helped many Jews and received medals...i take no pride in that either. I take pride in what i do myself. And so should you! Be proud of your own work! Not the fact you were born somewhere or had ancestors. A baker can take pride in the bread he bakes...an artist can be proud of a painting or sculpture he made and so on. It does not matter where that bread was baked or that painting made. It does not matter if their great great great grandmother was baking bread or painting. Anyway, thanks for the info about the Frysians because like you i was curious as well :) You will find my work on my channel, as well as much history in my playlists. There some great lectures in there and especially about prehistory which i find even more fascinating. So much to learn about that and the past year was probably the most exiting ever with some mindblowing discoveries such as Jebl Irhoud and again Denisova...an incredible site that just keeps on giving. Another record setting find published just 10 days ago! siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/cave-lion-figurine-made-of-woolly-mammoth-tusk-found-at-denisova-cave/ But history of more recent times has also been spectacular with the LIDAR research lately. Turns out the Maya civilization was 30 times bigger than previously known..and they discovered an enormous civilization in The Amazon nobody even had a clue about! Heb een fijne week Phylicia :)
My ancestors were Frisian, specifically from Aurich and Leer. So maybe we have similar ancestry. Just a little. As you say, these ancient battles were long ago, before you were alive. I can see how it's difficult to connect yourself to their culture. In the modern Netherlands today I can see how you feel nothing like them at all. But in 1860, a man named Franz sailed with his father across the Atlantic for two months to come to the United States. He fought in our civil war and later gave his name to freed African slaves. He gained farmland. His descendent, my great-grandfather, fought the Japanese and came back with ears he had collected. His son, my grandfather left their own state and traveled to Georgia, because he had become skilled and secured a better life than farming. I too, joined our military when I was young and used the money and benefits to provide a better future for my family. I was a mechanic but my son will be a doctor. Wasn't that exactly what the Frisians did? If (like the Romans) someone came and took my children as slaves, I'd hang those bastards and burn their shit down too. You make me glad to be American and not Dutch. I don't know what you've lost but I know I still have it.
andthenifellinlove Yeah, he was killed in trying to rescue people from a seaside resort during the famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. To this day, we call that type of eruption a Plinian eruption.
Frisian are NOT Dutch. The North Frisian of Germany consider themselves Frisian 1st, German 2nd. AND that's what the Frisian in the Nederlands should do. The Dutch tried to eradicate the Frisian language & culture. It was ONLY in 1955 that the Frisian language was accepted as an official language. AND more recently, Frisian is being taught in Friesland & Groningen, as it should be. This is an insult that it took this long for the Frisian language to become an official language...!!!! The Frisian language is so much older than the Dutch language. Dutch people CANNOT understand or speak Frisian. I was in the Nederlands visiting my Frisian cousin's friend, Antoon. He told me he could NOT speak or understand Frisian because it was too complicated. The Frisian/Frisii were discovered 12 BC but not to be found in 4 AD...maybe due to floods, etc. Some Frisian went to Kent, England & Flanders. When the Anglo-Saxon wars broke out, the Frisian in England went back to Magna Frisia/Friesland. Magna Frisia covered the coastal areas from Belgium to Denmark. Frisian artifacts found have been dated back to 1750 BC. The Dutch OWE their freedom to the Frisian. The Dutch have a saying, "You're not much if you're not Dutch". I say, you're not much if you are Dutch. FRYSLAN BOPPE...!!!!! MAKE FRYSLAN GREAT AGAIN...!!!!! BTW, my Pake is from Friesland.
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FRISIAN ARE NOT DUTCH...THEY ARE FRISIAN...!!!! The Frisian were in that area of the Nederlands first. You need to study this history. The majority of Dutch cannot understand Frisian. Talk about ignorance...look at yourself first. I never posted "hate"...HMMM...maybe you do hate. Frisian language is closest to English NOT Dutch. NOT "ALL ethnic Dutch are descended from the Old Frisian". Frisian are descended from the Old Frisian. Frisian artifacts have been discovered in northern west Nederlands that date back to 1750 BC. PATHETIC...SMH
REALLY...???!!! Then WHY did a TRUE Frisian woman tell me the info I am posting??. She grew up in the Nederlands with biases against/towards the Frisian. My FRISIAN friend refers to you as "Dingaling Brinnosch".
Cataline Brinnosch, you'd better do some research yourself before accusing anyone of being "ignorant". There is tremendous animosity against Frisians in the Netherlands espécially from many Dutch - in fact, it's just about the only group with ethnicist tendencies. Frisians - or, as you call them "Friezen", are not Dutch. These are two different and very distinct ethnic groups. After your bizarre claim "yes Friezen are Dutch" you suddenly divert to "It just depends on how you define 'Dutch'." Your argument is silly, as Dutch is an ethnic group - it is only claimed as a "blanket term" for inhabitants of The Netherlands in order to hide ethnicism, the colonization of Frisia and the oppression of indigenous peoples. The Seventeen Provinces during the sixteenth century were composed of four primary ethnicities, and the predecessor of today's The Netherlands was the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, with the secession of Belgique taking two of the primary ethnicities with them, after which the Holland government proceded to violate every single treaty and illegally annexing much of the Frisian territories, diminishing every single Lordship, Duchy etc. to a lower level 'County', or 'Province', thereby hiding their occupation. You go on about language: Standard Dutch ís Hollandic - it is not only taught wíth in all schools for every single subject, it is taught as a subject "Nederlands", which is a country not a language, thereby further hiding the fact they are destroying the indigenous language Fryske, which for a time was banned from being taught to anyone at all, going so far as criminalizing anyone who spoke it - the latter still being in effect arbitrarily, again to hide the fact the Dutch colonizers are destroying a Nation: the most effective way to commit ethnic genocide is by banning the language to next generations. So the oppression is real, has been for more than 500 years, and is currently being perpetrated by the exclusively Dutch - major race (ethnicity) only - gouvernment of The Netherlands, which should represent all ethnicities on their soil, not just the Dutch. It is one of the most blatant supremacy cases in the modern world, and quite possibly the worst of all western society. So the language case you brought up is not only incorrect, it in no way makes a case like you claim "Frisians are Dutch", which is epically false. The others are provinces: human beings are not to be degraded to making them identifiable by a mere piece of land - your comparison is dehumanizing to Frisians. Etnic Dutch are not descended from Old Frisians - where do you even get this nonsense? Dutch is a different ethnic group, not native to The Netherlands - they are on taken land. It seems yóu are confused, as modern day Frisians and ancient Frisians are an ethnic group which traces back tens of thousands of years - perhaps more - and are áll Frisians, as they are today. Indigenous, with a heritage its own.
It’s funny that I am half Frisian despite not even looking Frisian. Being part of two minority groups (Frisia in the Netherlands and Manado in Indonesia) made me interested in learning cultures and languages. It’s sad though to know that the cultures are dying though.. Would’ve loved to know some Frisian... Now the only Frisian thing about me is my last name Boersma. Wich does come handy though when applying for jobs as Frisian are known to be good and honest people👍🏼
How lovely that you've got such roots! I understand that the thought of a culture dying out is sad; however, by learning and telling stories we keep these heritages alive. I have yet to learn more Frisian myself. Also, isn't it interesting how such biases exist and stay prominent?
What exactly do you mean with they were completely different people? I was researching what people lived in that particular part of the world that we now call the Netherlands where I grew up. The Frisians is the term that I found. I am aware that there are Frisians niw that don't live in that exact same spot as what I researched.
Interesting video. My father's family comes from the river area from Arnhem thru Utrecht. Because of the heavy Roman presence along the rivers I got interested in researching the history. You are correct in saying the Frisians fought back against Rome but there is a little more to the story :-). Julius Caesar went up the N.Holland strip or tried to. His legions were defeated in at least two good fights and decided to withdraw from the area. The land was too heavily forested and was totally unsuited to Roman Legion tactics and the Frisians took advantage of the forests to ambush the legions repeatedly (ala Teutonberg Forest later on). Also N.Holland was a thinner strip of land than it is now. Later on when Rome was more established in the region many young Frisians joined the Roman legion as auxilary troops. Frisians also liked to trade with the Romans and vice versa. Romans were fond of the Frisian's ox-hides or bull-hides. Not sure what made them special. Its fascinating that Frisians were a distinct enough group to be recognized by the Romans so long ago.
Pedro Paulo Guilhardi How s that so ,The Romans had no problem with water Crossing That's how they first attacked the Gauls and later Germans? Could you elaborate?
Emperor August defined the natural borders of the Roman empire to be the Rhine and the Danube in the north, the Euphrate in the east, and the Sahara desert in the south. When Trajanus conquered the Parthians, he was in violation of that dictate, so his successor Hadrian restored the old borders and gave the Parthians their sovereignity back. However, the influence of Rome stretched far beyond it's borders ever since it became a major power in the Italian peninsula. Frisia back then was extremely difficult to conquer because of flooding (people lived on terps). Likewise, the Romans endured many defeat in the German woods. It's just not a favourable conditions for military warfare. However, the Frisians depended on trade a lot, so they could not deny Rome :)
something like the united states army and vietnam, The swampy terrain is not favorable for a heavy infantry similar to the Roman legion. however the Batavians and Friesians served as Roman auxiliaries for quite some time. Like the rest of the tribes that later became Romanized (Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians, etc.) all served as foedarati.
Indeed, dears Phylicia and John Bland. The expression I used "the only thing' is too extremist and not too accurate. Of course there are several uncountless factors that count. However, if the Frisians lived on the Wester shore of the Rhine, nowadays the Dutch would be speaking some latin variation. The people from Flanders and Luxemburg, for instance, came to their present-day territory after the Roman Empire was too weak (after the Justinian plague) to defend itself from the Barbaric incursions. Germanic tribes had no resources, engineer and logistics to defeat the Roman army in a war. Yes, I know, I know about Teutoburg forest. They (the germanic tribes under the influence of a roman general) won the battle. They didn't win the war. A few years later, another roman general, Germanicus, returned there, buried the dead, retrieved the Eagles and burned several villages. However, the Germanic victory in Teutoburg forest dissuaded the Roman inteligentia to expand their territory on Eastern Rhine. The Romans had the ability to cross any river, but crossing is something... maintaning such a territory in one's control for decades or centuries, is another thing.
Nice video and good to do research on Your background! And Yes the Dutch geography and history is quiet a complex one. I’m from the capital that doesn’t house the government or the Royal family; Amsterdam (That used to be the capital of the Dutch Republic after Antwerp, currently Belgium! fell to the Spanish army) but I bear A Frisian name that used to be Hoeksema-Boninga, But my Great grand father dropped the second name out of principle the second name was granted in the middle ages because our ancestors developed a method to dye textile dark blue, wich was a colour reserved for aristrocrats. The family was given the right to bare a second aristocratic name which my great-grand father resented because he who worked him self up from a orphan to a director of a ships engine company felt that all people should be equal. Then there is Frisians who say that the names ending with: “ga” are from Groningen. But our family crest is in the Frisian museum and he did marry a woman from Groninger family Kraaima. This all happend in pre-war Amsterdam so a Frisian and a Groningian in the capital of the Netherlands. Are they Dutch? In Friesland they usually don not like to be referred to as ‘Dutch’ since they fought just as hard as hard against the Graaf van Holland as they did against any conqueror before them! They are part of a culture that was linked to the Scandinavian tribes and during the Viking age their coastal towns delivered longboats and rowers to the viking fleet. Their greatest hero is Great Pier, a farmer of 2,15 meter who handed a two handed sword of 2,12 meters! he fought against the german Saxons and the Dutch and anybody that could not pronounce a certain sentence in Frisian on demand would be killed by him. And also a large part of the Netherlands did get conquered by the Romans, and they did influence the Dutch culture very much by founding city’s building roads and bridges, and also other conquerors like Habsburg-Spain, Napoleonic France and Hitler German occupation did influence everything in our culture, language philosophy etc. The Dutch who themselves conquered and colonized many countries around the world like Brazil, New Amsterdam (NY) the Antilles, Dutch-Indonesia, Sri-Lanka and they did bring their influence upon these cultures....
First off, thank you so much for writing such a detailed comment. The way you described it all was a lovely read. I love history, and I wanted to learn more. As far as I know, you know a whole lot about your own heritage. So cool!!! What you mentioned about the Frisian saying, I went to Leeuwarden a couple of months ago where I also read a sentence on the wrapping paper of a beer bottle that said something similar as what you described. I wonder if it is the same saying. I couldn't pronounce it since my heritage is coming a lot more from the Holland generation. (I was born and raised in Hoorn, but my parents come from Amsterdam, or the Zaanstreek. Also, some roots are from Germany). I love history and learning! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write all of that out. Where did you learn/research all of this?
I think we can not mention Friesian history without mentioning the “ Batavieren “ as this Germanic tribe had a great impact on the “ low lands “ This little part of Western Europe with its unique history and battle with the sea and it’s resilient people I am proud to be part of. Thank you for this tutorial, very interesting indeed. As a “ Hollander “ I have always had the greatest respect for my Friesian cousins !
He died because of a disease. But there have been issues with Vikings after the Frisians became to be a colony of the Franconian empire. The biggest crime commited bye Vikings on Frisians was in Rome, say 900 years ago. Sicilia based Vikings killed the entire Frisian expat community after the army of the Holy German empire was forced out of Rome. This community was founded in 799, the year when the Frisian army occpuied Rome for the emperor to be of the Caroling empire and then told the emperor: "We need to talk about some things before we will also led you in" This emperor might have been thinking: ""The Frisians can do the hard work". Well, there was a price to be paid for this :) BTW a movie about Redbad is coming up, he was the last not Christian leader of Frisians. www.redbadthemovie.com/
Thanks for sharing this video. About the frisians lovely history video. I also am dutch with frisian roots i from Groningen. Like to see more videos in the future great Job.
Thank you so much for watching, and also for taking the time to comment. :-) I am Dutch as well, and although I was born in Hoorn, Noord-Holland, I find it very interesting to discover how the original people where I live lived like back in the day.
@@phyliciajoykloes i also studied germanic tribes as well. History is part of who we are today. And we have a lot to be thankfull of because of our ancestors. Het ga je goed en bedankt voor je video.
@@koosmeinders2667 That's so cool! I totally agree. If one event were to be different or not happen at all, everything would be different today. It definitely helps shape communities and individuals. Bedankt voor je bericht! Ik wens jou ook al het goede. 😊
@@phyliciajoykloes but Hoorn is West Friesland :) Ik heb zelf een aantal jaren in Medemblik gewoond en mijn grootouders spraken West Fries, wat toch wel wat anders is dan normaal Fries.
@@xXTheoLinuxXx Ja, dat klopt zeker. Toen ik dat deel van Nederland onderzocht, kwam ik erachter dat toendertijd de Friezen er woonden. West-Fries en Fries is natuurlijk anders.
Im Frisian but my family left Europe in 1650 and moved to New York. I got some German and Irish in me too but my physical appearance is Dutch. BTW the Dutch are the tallest people in the world which is an indication of their healthy diet. Some Dutch guy told me that the Frisians are extremely stubborn. You dont tell them what to do or how to live because they have their own ideas about those subjects and you are NOT gonna change their minds.
If you are (mostly) Frisian, how so is it that your "physical appearance is Dutch"❓ I once went to an all-Dutch large (few thousand) college with the exception of me and my biological brother, both of us ethnically Frisian - all Dutch came up to my shoulder, and to his chest.
@@inkstertourist it's why we have a saying carved in stone. 'Leaver dea as slaef'. It means: Rather die then be a slave. During the 2nd World War we went on strikes so long that the German officers had to call the bigger chiefs back home about what to do about it. So they got the order to set a curfew and shot at everyone who was outside unawares at the time. However instead of the Frisians backing down they united even more. So much so that there was a specific village that they named 'terrorist village' they knew they were there somewhere hiding they just couldn't get to them or so I was told.
Not bad for someone giving a talk in a language Not their native language, I couldn't do that. (Just a 'heads up', when people rebel, we say they 'revolted', Not 'revolved'. And as someone else has Commented, we think you meant Pliny the Elder, Not 'Plinty the Elder'.)
My paternal grandfather was Frisian, my paternal grandmother German. So I'm equally glad the Frisians beat the Romans back and maintained their homes. If they hadn't, I probably wouldn't be here.
Also, check out the movie War Lord with Chuck Heston. He is a Norman knight protecting his fief from Frisian raiders - good action movie. The Frisians were/are some serious blond badasses.
Drusus was the brother of future emperor Tiberius. Tiberius was not his father. Emperor Augustus adopted the 2 brothers via Mariage with Livia Drusilla (their mother).
andthenifellinlove No worries I’ve been an I,Claudius fan since childhood. Poor Drusus died of gangrene. He was one of the few good Romans. The rest mostly pagans lol! I myself Anglo/ Dutch/ American. You have a nice web sight. Peace, BHS
So, where do I begin? At least half of what you say is plain wrong. 1. The IJsselmeer did not exist at roman times. 2. The Romans never attacked Frisia. The Frisians had to pay taxes and the sons of high ranking Frisians were forced to romanize (as with all other Germanic tribes at the time). 3. The Frisians of then, dissapeared. They mixed with Saxons and Franks and lower Rhine tribes. This happened after the Romans left the lower Rhine region. That is logical, as there was now finally room to go south. 4. Frisians did not trade primarily. They did trade, also over sea, but primarily they were farmers. There has never been found or mentioned any Frisian harbor of any substance. 5. So, Dorestad was not a Frisian city, but Batavian. 6. Frisians had an uprising twice against the romans. Although they were initially successful, they lost to the Romans. The Romans did not occupy Frisia. Another proof that they were not interested in it. 7. The Netherlands is not a historic consequence of Frisia as the Frisians dissapeared completely (to France and Belgium and some to England). The current Frisians are Danes and Saxons. 8. The origin of the Dutch is very mixed. Maybe some Frisian, but mostly Saxon and Frankish (lower Rhine Germanic tribes). 9. The origin of the Dutch language is not Frisian. It is lower Franconian. 10. The holy Roman Empire did not exist until the 12th century. There are many more mistakes in your video, but I leave it at that.
I truly appreciate you took the time to write our the errors you noticed. I am aware of the wrong names I gave to the Zuiderzee and the Holy Roman Empire. I researched this topic when I was in college, so I bet there's more information out there now. I will consider to think critically more often when doing my research.
@@phyliciajoykloes Good! Uhm.... maybe make a new video?? And the Zuiderzee did not exist at Roman times either. It was still land with a river (the IJssel maybe,, don't know which one actually) ending in what now is the Waddenzee. It was land, is my point, not yet water. There was a "mare Flevum that suggests that the IJsselmeer or Zuiderzee was starting to develop and surely the land that was there was maybe not permanent land anymore. But if you look at maps of the Netherlands of year zero, you will see what I mean.
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The Frisian landscape was a deathtrap for large armies. Moving vast armies into territory that exist mainly of saltmarshes that are flooded every six hours - so you can settle your armies only on small islands, scattered. Plus it is very difficult to explore, while your enemy knows it from A to Z - and will make good use of that knowledge. It's a nightmare for an army that relied on quick movements (Caesar conquered Gaul mainly because of his speed of action - and his ability to divide and conquer which even Rome itself wasn't up to). Frisia was however dependent on that big Roman market, so influence doesn't always go the military way.
They would flood the land on purpose for military strategy
@@acmatt1989
That was 1400 years later 😂😂
Make Fryslan great again!
Yeah!!! :-)
Ricky ja blixum
fryslan boppe 😎
You need a recognizable hat first! MAGA!
It already is and always has been. Be careful what you wish for or you could end up in our boat, which is sinking no thanks to Dickhead Donald.
As a Frisian myself, I have to say that I am moved aswell as educated dear lady! I can give you this, that fire/figthing sipirt/lust for freedom that you convaid I reconize aswell within myself as my fellow Frisians! I had never thought/realised that Frisia played such a big role in the development of the Dutch culture. What I can do are two things, one, thanks for the informative and inspirational presentation (even if it was a assignment, that I hope you passed with flying colours, you did in my book!). Second, I leave you with a old Frisian saying: leaver dea as slaef (beter dead then a slave), to hopefully show you how accurate your assignment is and give you the courage and inner fire you gave me! Have a wonderfull live and enjoy your teaching job! 😁
Wow, thank you so much for writing such a detailed comment, Erik. I appreciate your feedback and knowledge! :-) Haha, I did indeed pass my assignment - an A, yay! It was so much fun to do this research since I'd only really focused on the time period of Willem van Oranje (and anything after that) in school. I don't speak Frisian, so I really think it's cool of you to share an actual Frisian saying. It's interesting to me to see how history impacts today, and a quote like the one you shared has a greater message that it appears to be at first. ;-)
Education is power, so hopefully people will be less ignorant in the near future. :-) Everyone can learn from one another. It's cool that you're teaching yourself Frisian. I'm sorry your parents didn't teach you when you were younger, but it's never too late! I noticed speaking a language requires a greater skill set, but being able to listen and understand is impressive in itself. I cannot understand Frisian at all. Lol! I'm glad you enjoyed my video. I really appreciate that you want to share it with others; That's really kind of you. :-)
I knew Friesland had a different dialect, but didn't know until more recently that Frisians are an older people than Dutch with an older distinct language (instead of just a province of Dutch people). I didn't know how great Frisia once was-thank you for the research! I have read that Frisian is closest to Old English-good to preserve the distinct language. I do know of Dutch who can't understand the Frisian speech. Maybe I will try to learn it!!
Thank you for watching! :-) Good luck studying when you do.
andthenifellinlove Thanks I will! 😁 And your welcome ^^
I just started recently to study my Frisian roots. I must say it's old language and history are very interesting. Thanks for the video
Klaas Jan Walda That's very interesting! Enjoy your research and findings. 😊 It is for sure a great topic. Thank you for watching!
Yes, I have really struggled to find Frieisian history written by Friesian people and source documents. It is all things people say about us which is all across the board and sometimes very confusing and mostly contradictory. I think I have gotten to the bottom of that part. It looks like because we were traders and an autonomous type area we may have taken on dissidents from other places similar to how America takes in political dissidents and all sorts of people. Is that correct? I also want to know more about the interactions with the royal families and the interactions with the trading companies. Any suggestions?
@@topaz898989 there is an entire book in Beowulf dedicated to the Frisians. You might after that study the Magna Frisia and afterwards you can visit Groningen to learn from the university where Frisian is a course. Good luck!
This specifically is about West Frisian.
Nice video. As a lover of all histories, I appreciate your time and effort into this presentation.
2:00 don't you mean, just The Roman Empire? Since the Holy Roman Empire is a completely different empire in a different time...that got me really confused for a second.
DIMIX I'm sorry for confusing you! You are right. 😉
No problem. It's a really good and informative video! Great Work!!!
DIMIX Thank you so much for saying that! I appreciate you took the time to watch it. 😊
DIMIX
Well, they fought with both. The holy Roman empire was ruled by Charlemagne and the Frank's. King Redbad fought off the Frank's and their forced conversion of Christianity for many years.
They are not different silly.
I, as an Englishman, I will always admire and respect you guys as I am proud to call brothers and sisters, alongside the Dutch, Germans, and the Scandinavians. Peace :)
Awww, that's sweet! We're all connected in some way. :-) Peace!
Yes That Is Why The Flemish and The Dutch have team up again to leave Europe and form a free trade zone with the english...
Racist shit.
Samuel_* I'm sorry you feel that way. As a Noord-Hollander, I want to let you know I love the long history of the Frisians. Keep holding on! Let the haters hate. 😉
These Slovenians look quite Germanic:
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Bedankt om de video te maken! je confirmeert iets waar op ik aan het hopen was namelijk dat zelfs het hele schelde gebied van de Friezen was en ze een prachtige landbouw en handelscultuur hadden.... komen er heel goed uit in de geschiedenis van europa als handelsstam... From Antwerp with love!
Modern Nature Bedankt voor het kijken en voor deze lieve reactire!
This is an AWESOME video excellent job. I hope you keep sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for your comment!
My dad is Dutch and I’m in Australia. Proud of Frisia!
Ey, that is lovely! :-)
Same here Jesse, does explain the personality of the family! I love the flag.
Nice research project and presentation. For much more detail on Frisians and the trading empire they helped to develop all around the margins of the North Sea in the early Middle Ages I recommend Michael Pye's book The Edge of the World.
Michael Anderson Thank you so much! And also thanks for letting me know. 😊
I'd also recommend "Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours" by John Hines and Nelleke IJssenagger, and "The Excavations at Wijnaldum" by Bestemann, Bos, Gerrets, Heidinga and de Koning".
"It was at the time
that king Charles (Charlemagne) began to rule.
Then there was in the district of the Saxons
Liudingerus, a very strong lord.
He wanted to equip himself so strongly
that he would get king Charles' empire.
Also wanted he to do more;
he wanted to bring the strong Frisians under his authority.
He ordered in whole his realm
that he should be called mighty king.
As king Charles became aware of this,
then he was angry inside.
He announced to the Frisians
whether they with him would start a fight against the new king.
The Frisians gathered;
on this message they took a good decision.
The Frisians very strongly
went to the district of the Saxons.
The Saxon lords became aware of that;
they came to meet the Frisians on the field.
Then they fought so grimly
they slew the Saxons both the poor and the rich.
But at last
they caught the best of the Saxon lords and knights.
Those they tied so much
with strong fetters.
Then they lead them by force
where they found king Charles in his realm.
When king Charles heard
that the Saxon lords came to him all tied,
he was very glad in his mind;
he welcomed the brave Frisians.
He then took them in his palace
and served them both mead and wine.
The Frisians left the kings' court;
they arrived in their country with high praise.
So you have heard
how the strong Frisians then fared against the Saxons.
There after it occurred at a time
that the Roman lords began fight against king Charles.
They wanted recklessly
to keep the tax of the kingdom.
The king severely
announced this in whole his kingdom.
They came all together
who were in his realm, relatives and foreigners.
As the Frisians heard this news
they came to the kings court without being asked.
There they came in useful
because they had the courage of a brave lioness.
There they spoke to the king heroically
they would fight alone against the Roman lords for the empire.
They took the sharp swords in their hands and
placed themselves in front of the castle.
The lords inside the castle saw this;
they went to fight against the Frisians on the field.
An ordeal was begun;
many valuable fighter was then there slain.
Then at that moment
the Frisians violently began to fight upon the lords.
Frightened the lords then looked back and
all of them flew quickly to the castle.
The Frisians followed with determined mind,
that they would win the castle with force.
But at last
they won the castle and the best of the lords.
People began to close the gates,
but king Charles and his troops were outside.
The Frisians took a decision;
they would give king Charles both castle and garrison.
The king thought to himself
how he should repay the brave Frisians with some goods
for this enormous action.
First of all he gave them
a great gift.
Twenty coins of fiery red gold
that the Frisians should give the empire yearly as tax
That gift that he gave the Frisians,
that should always and forever endure.
Besides he commanded imperially
that no lord should force them by power.
Unless it were that they would do it by their own free will
that they would accept a lord.
But I don't think to myself,
that they by own will would recognize a lord.
The king was not satisfied with this order,
the authority of the holy pope he added to it.
He then asked it the pope
that he would put the Frisians under clerical rule.
He forever excommunicated all those
that the Frisians caused any trouble.
There commanded king Charles publicly that
the Frisians should choose new judges every year.
He put the imperial crown on their head,
therefore he ordered to shave them.
But if they did not want to do that,
they were allowed to let their hair grow freely.
that all people might see then
that he has made them free.
He commanded them then kingly,
all Frisians that were strong and rich,
that they should receive an accolade on their white neck;
After that he should always be knight.
He should carry a very nice weapon;
on his shield he should paint the royal crown.
That he this gift had given the Frisians for ever
for that he took to witness kings and dukes
and many other high men.
But at last,
That the descendents should know forever,
in the letters it was written
about the gifts, that nothing should be forgotten.
The seal was of fiery red gold,
that all people should know that this gift should exist forever.
This letter they gave the free Frisian in his hand.
With pride and with honour he went back to his own free country.
In this way all people may understand
that king Charles the Frisians
has made free because of that strong fight."
I'm a Brit living in Gelderland. Some of my Dutch friends have a Frisian background, and they're all very proud of it. I did the 'Fietselfstedentocht' last year, so saw all of the 11 cities. You can check out my video of it. Love the flag too! Oh, and I also heard that for an English speaker Frisian is the easiest language to learn. Best of luck to you.
It's easy for English speakers to learn because Frisian has a very similar sentence structure to English
It looks like the Frisians held the line against Rome and later the Franks. I'm an Anglo-Celtic American. My Anglian ancestors and I thank our Frisian brethren.
Love the information - I'm an American, with English, German, Dutch and French roots. I'm proud to have a common bond here! Great video, and I hope that you will make more videos!
Roger Quarton Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I want to look into this topic, but I don't have much spare time now. 😉
No need to hurry . . . I thought you did a great job, really. We'll wait, patiently! :-)
Dankjewel voor deze mooie samenvatting
Flying Dutchman Geen dank! 😊 Bedankt voor het kijken.
Thank you for this excellent video. I am a proud Frisian: " Fryslân boppe". Greetings to all Frisions all over the world!!!
It is in jierke ferlien mar goeie :p
old comment but still. did you take part in the grutte pier project by tresoar? Where you submitted part of your family tree, and they would see if you were connected to Grutte's family tree. Seems I am a full cousin 16 times removed of his, one of the grandchildren of his uncle Tyreck Sybrantz. Bonga from his grandfather's side.
There was a fun festival in kimswerd. Seems through Grutte I have extended family all over the planet.
EALE FRYA FRESENA!!!
You are uneducated.
Simp
I didn't even know what a Frisian was till I looked up the meaning of my mothers maiden name Thole and found out it was Frisian..... Now I'm obsessed with them. Just a small number of badasses.. lol... Thanks for sharing
That's so cool! I'm glad you found that out. Learning about family history is interesting. Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and write a comment.
Where did you find the origins? My dad is Dutch his last name De Vriend. Don’t have contact with him or family and would like to know more.
@jaep struiksma I tried meertens but I can’t read Dutch and some things came up
Leaver dea as sleaf....
Rather dead than slave.
Once upon a time I was able to read and understand Nederlands.
Which came because I was able to understand and speak
Suerlandisch.
Thank you for this, I have Fresian heritage but not interested in horses which is all that comes up when I search Fresian history.
Rob C Thank you for watching! 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope your further search has more results!
My last name is Frisard and my great grandparents migrated from the Rhineland between France and Germany because of the constant wars between those two countries and the many sons who were lost during those wars. I'm reaching out to any other Frisards in America and Europe . I'm located in another below sealevel town , New Orleans, which suffered the major flood of Katrina in August of 2005.
Fryske (Frisian) is such a beautiful language and the people are amazing, true freedom lovers.
Wonderful video, thanks for uploading it here! P.S.: Your English is perfect, congrats!
Fryslân boppe!
Thank you! 🤗 Also, thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
@@phyliciajoykloes You're most welcome! You both intelligent, humble and mega sweet and to top it all, you´re beautiful too :-)
@@joalexsg9741 Haha, thank you for saying that. 😇 That's sweet of you. I love learning new things! And anyone I meet and connect with has a lesson that I can learn from. 🤗
@@phyliciajoykloes It is my belief there are more Frisian who came to America than Dutch. Peter Stuyvesant & Mata Hari were Frisian.
Frisians are the people of Freya. Freya (supposedly) taught Frisians the deep importance of freedom. She is the mother of the Frisians.
To this day our motto is:
Leaver dea as slaef
Rather dead than slave
I like that your references include an article about Het Oera Linde Boek. There's a lot of interesting background in the story of that book; maybe you'll also find it interesting enough to make a video about that.
I would enjoy you doing a review of " Redbad." or even the older film "The Warlord" These films gave an interest in Frisia. You did an excellent job. Succes!
Thank you for your tip. I'll consider it.
@@phyliciajoykloes Brilliant!
I so appreciate learning this. According to my DNA most of my ancestors came from Friesa, Denmark, & England. I am an American and am fascinated with our ancient history of the Netherlands/Friesa. Plus my great-great grandmother was born in the Netherlands.
That's so cool! Learning about your family history is interesting for sure. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the rest of your search.
Thank you for your history lesson. My grandmother was born in Boazum, Friesland 1895. I just got back from a trip to see where she lived as a child. I appreciate knowing more about them.
Thank you for watching. How interesting! How was visiting where she lived?
My mother is from Friesland......i was born and raised in West Friesland. My father is from Kabyle in Algeria.....thé Kabyle People are like the Frisian. They have their own language and culture. Make Friesland great again....
Yamina Bouhas I found out not that long ago that my bloodlines are Frisian. My last name is Bouma and I noticed that yours isn’t far off. Just thought that that was pretty cool.
@@jordanbouma9620 my mother's name is Brondsema...... it's Frisian. Like your name it's Frisian...it end with ma☺️
I'm writing this comment in English, but i am Frysk. thank you for making this video! I am very interested in what you know. Where did you learn all this? and also its very nice to see that young Frisian woman show interest in their heritage. you dont see that alot. I myself live in Den Haag but I'm very eager to learn more about the my ancestors.
Jesse Thank you so much! I am Dutch and I am from Hoorn, Noord-Holland. When I studied in the U.S., we had to do a research project on an ancient civilisation. I wanted to learn more about the Netherlands before Willem van Oranje and the Spanish. I was very interested in learning more about the Dutch inhabitants during the time of the Romans. Thank you for watching and for taking your time to comment!
Yes, Hoorn is in West-Friesland!
Thank you for taking your time to watch the video and comment! I appreciate that a lot. :-) To be honest, I learned most of this during the research I did for this exact project. I was born and raised in Hoorn (Noord-Holland), and I loved history. I was lucky enough to have great history teachers, and when I studied in the US I decided to look into that part of history that all my teachers seemed to pass by many years. I love learning about heritage and culture, and it teaches me more about the very far away roots of where I come from. PS, Den Haag is awesome! I visit the city some times. ;-)
Duke Knoop Bedankt voor het bericht! 😊 Meerdere literatuur is altijd interessant om door te nemen. En ik heb niet gedacht aan een DNA onderzoek, nee.
Harvey Cedar Take the Westfriese omringdijk and the Noordhollands Kanaal (channel),and you pretty much have the border of the West Friesland region!
Love the passion! Definitely Frisian blood. I was also born in NL then moved to the states years ago, but I just found out my grandfather is Frisian
My Pake, too, came to USA from Friesland. I think, more Frisian came to North America than Dutch.
@@k.b.392 I know alot of Frisian farmers went to Canada, the US and New Zealand after the 2nd world war but I only know people who have family in Canada and New Zealand but two of my uncles visited Texas to meet up with some farmers that still have family here. I worked for a farmer who has a family in New Zealand for example. A lot of farmers moved because making a living here became difficult during that time I think but I'm not sure if that is the reason.
@@erwinj9697 Peter Stuyvesant is Frisian. Hofstra University is named after a Frisian. MANY Frisian came to America. Most surnames ending with -stra, -sma, -ga, -ma are Frisian. De Vries de Fries) surname is the #1 Frisian surname, Hoekstra & Dijkstra #2 & #3. It is my belief the surname Dijkstra was changed to Dykeman; to people at Ellis Island, the ' ij ' looked like ' y ' to them when written in script. Mata Hari was Frisian. (Jane Fonda, TRAITOR) Fonda is a Frisian surname.
Thanks for making this! I am currently making a personification of Fryslân, and it helps quite a bit to hear the information in a clear way
Thank you for a refreshing and sparkly testimony of your Frisian background. It's exactly as I feel it myself, being Frisian from my mother's side, who was born in Holwerd, right on the Frisian North coast. Like you, I'm quite determined in achieving my goals and patience served me well, in order to prepare for and make the journey overseas with a one way ticket. I live in Devon UK now and although I feel much at home where I am, my Frisian roots are in some peculiar way happy with this choice of location. I wish you the best of results in study and work, travels and marvels at what you'll explore and find out in life, with that attitude. Kudos!
Marian B. Thank you so much for your comment. That is so cool that you've got Frisian roots yourself. 😊 I am glad your decision was the right one. I like the UK a lot!
Very inspirational and encourages me to think well of my ancient dutch heritage. Well Done
Thank you so much for watching! History is interesting, isn't it? The Frisians definitely fought back. Thanks to them (and my family's history of course), I can call myself Dutch now.
Very interesting viedo. Are you a historian by profession?
I currently teach. 😊 Thank you for watching!
@@phyliciajoykloes Great! As the Romans said, "Historia est vita memoriae et magistra vitae" :) Even the Polish Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel "Teutonic Knights" mentioned "Knights from a distant Frisian nation who live by the sea" :)
Terrific video! You put a lot of time into making this, researching, etc. Thank you. Greetings from the US, and sadness as well -- because this video reminded me of a place in my heart, and my own ancestors -- Hindeloopen. Someday I will return to that magical village -- and just breathe, and be. Dank u wel!
This announcement does not have the purpose to hack this video, but only serves as proof.
"The principal Proto-Germanic branch of the Indo-European family tree is R1b-S21. This haplogroup is found at high concentrations in the Netherlands and north-west Germany. It is likely that R1b-S21 lineages expanded in this region through a founder effect during the Unetice period, then penetrated into Scandinavia around 1700 BCE (probably alongside R1a-L664), thus creating a new culture, that of the Nordic Bronze Age (1700-500 BCE). R1b-S21 would then have blended for more than a millennium with preexisting Scandinavian populations, represented by haplogroups I1, I2-L801, R1a-Z284. When the Germanic Iron Age started c. 500 BCE, the Scandinavian population had developed a truly Germanic culture and language, but was divided in many tribes with varying levels of each haplogroup. R1b-S21 became the dominant haplogroup among the West Germanic tribes, but remained in the minority against I1 and R1a in East Germanic and Nordic tribes, including those originating from Sweden such as the Goths, the Vandals and Lombards."
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Extremely interesting. Are you familiar with the Nordwestblock hypothesis? Before Germanic and Celtic was spoken in Low-Countries and Western Germany there are some indications that they spoke a Venetic language in this area (say around 500 BC).
Be a teacher! We need teachers like you!
As a Mennonite, much of my roots come from Friesland, as well as the rest of the Netherlands and Germany. Was very interesting to see what my ancestors did back in the day!
Oh wow, thank you for watching and leaving a comment. Thanks for sharing that. :-) I am glad you enjoyed.
I am currently reading Call Newport's Digital Minimalism and the Amish and Mennonite communities were mentioned as technology use is more intentionally thought about and chosen for use. May I ask how you enjoy browsing/using website(s) like RUclips, and how it adds value to your life? If you don't want to answer, I'd respect that. However, since I am more aware of my own screen time and want to minimize that, the question arose after reading your comment.
@@phyliciajoykloes You're welcome! I tend to spend a little too much time on RUclips and just the internet in general to be honest haha. I have been really working on minimizing how often I go on social media as I can, and so for it's working out pretty well.
Just some ideas for further video's, Civilis and the Batavian revolt 69-70AD. And Frisians vs Holland in the dark ages 5-7th centuries. Keep it up I am a big fan
It is nearly impossible to tell that American English is not your native tounge. The "th" sound is the only indication.
Haha, that's so cool you say that! I am not sure how I picked it up like that. 😂 I'm sure living in Florida for four years has a lot to do with it.
I was always told that my background was from Friesland, a province in Holland. I have been learning more about my background (and the history of my name).
One thing I recently learned was that Frisia was the birthplace of Vikings and that they got their beginnings trying to fight off the French and other conquering nations.
Its because of the Vikings that Frisia held onto its roots and did not bow to other nations
Your Viking story is totally not true. Do not know who told/wrote that is bullshit.
Thank you so much for this video. I have found out that my ancestory is a direct to Frisia, so this video helped me understand my bloodlines. It is amazing to learn that an Oklahoman from farm country has a pretty impresive history. Thanks again for a great video!!!
Thank you for your comment. That is so cool that you learned all that. 🤗
Thanks a lot for this wonderfull explanation of my Fryske Groun, and i am proud to be a real Frisian and i am living in a wonderfull city called Heerenveen
You ignored totaly the East-Frisians and North-Frisians in Germany on the east-side of the river Ems. I'm East-Frisian and there is more frisian history. Before the Battle at Teutoburg Forest 9 A.D. the frisian harbour Amesia ( City of Emden / Germany ) at the eastside of the river Ems, was besieged or attacked by roman military to get taxes for Rome from there. This was one of more reasons later, why Arminius fought against Varus at Teutoburg Forest. After this battle and the following Germanicus-campaign , Rome stopped the expansion to the East of Germania and the river Ems was the natural border to protect East-Frisia. The west side of the Ems was occupied by the Roman Empire. Frisian tribes were also involved at Teutoburg Forest. The native german East-Frisians have the closest genetic code with Anglo-Saxons in East-Anglia and Northumbria in U.K. today. The East-Frisians and North-Frisian tribes lived together with the Anglo-Saxon tribes, who went later to Southengland and founded the 4 early christian english kingdoms. The North-Frisians at the border to Denmark, on the island Helgoland and the North-Frisian Islands were long time indepedant and allied with the danish vikings. The viking trade post Haithabu or Hedeby in Schleswig-Holstein/ Germany was a settlement of frisians and vikings ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedeby_Viking_Museum ). The danish vikings invaded in the anglo-saxon terretories in U.K.. The East-Frisians were often in conflict with the Low Saxons of Oldenburg/Germany. I grow up in Friedeburg/ East-Frisia. Friedeburg was a frisian fort or castle at the "Friesischer Heerweg"/ Frisian Army track ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesischer_Heerweg ) at the border between the occupied saxon terretories of East-Frisia ( Friesland in Oldenburg, or Landkreis Friesland today) and East-Frisia. The North-Frisian language is a sign for long independance of the Frisians, and alived on islands in Germany, because Helgoland in the higher North-Sea of the German Bight was sometimes danish/ british or at the end german. Also the North-Frisian Islands were sometimes danish, prussian and at the end german. The gouvernments for these islands changed often, but not the North-Frisian dialect. The North- and East- Frisian history is very interesting for people in U.K. The East-Frisian language, Sater-Frisian, alived only in the Saterland in Germany after the 30 years war. The protestant monk Martin Luther was the first, who translated the Holy Bibly in a german language ( Modern Standard High German), and the Saterland ,enclosed and isolated by swamps, were the borderland between the catholic Emsland and the protestantic East-Frisia after the 30 years war. That's the reason why East-Frisians are speaking East-Frisian Low German or High German of the saxons, because they read the protestantic Gutenberg-Bible. The East-Frisians were often working immigrants in the Netherlands later, that we called here "Hollandgänger" or "Frieslandgänger" after the 30 years war. Otherwise Frisians from West-Frisia came to built dutch channels / "Grachten" and cultivate the landscape in East-Frisia, Emsland and Oldenburg. A lot of of villages in East-Frisia have names with "..... fehn" at the end, like Großefehn, Petersfehn, same like in the Netherlands ".......veen" for Amstelveen. We call this "Fehnkultur"/ veen-culture, a dutch influence. Also, you forget to say, that the people spoken a Low German dialect in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, familar with the East-Frisian Low German and the Low German of Oldenburg in Gerrmany. The Netherlands were first independant after the 80 years war with Spain and the 30 years war, and dutch started to be the standard language. It's also interesting, that parts of East-Frisia, Jever, the Wangerland, and the East-Frisian island Wangerooge were spanish and went after the 80 years war to the low saxon territory of Oldenburg.
Friesens Diecastcollection Wow, well spoken. I appreciate that you took the time to write all this. You are right, though. I only focused on the Netherlands.
It´s important to notice that mainstream scholars are still in denial of the true nature of the Northumbrian and Cumbrian dialects, i.e, regional Germanic languages in themselves, and not dialects of English. I believe these two are actually derived from Old Northumbrian, the true Anglian language, since it would be absurd to think that the Angles would speak a hybrid language, Anglo-Saxon, when they still had their own, the Angle's tongue! It is a shame that to this day the classic works found in Old Northumbrian are still called as being written in a 'dialect of Old English'. I would not be surprised if some studies found that Old Frisian would show even more similarities with Old Northumbrian and even between the modern phases of these languages, despite the different influences on their lexicons through time.
I think Scots also evolved out of Old Northumbrian and not as some try to put it as a 'dialect' of English, so the three, Scots, (modern) Northumbrian and Cumbrian are the modern developments of Old Northumbrian.
www.northumbriana.org.uk/langsoc/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbrian_Old_English
ruclips.net/video/cbwcTyM_Xq8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/3wVCJUQmTAM/видео.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbrian_dialect
www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Cumbria_Traditions/tradition_view.php?tradition=language_and_dialect_of_cumbria
www.lakelanddialectsociety.co.uk/
cumbriadialect.blogspot.com/
Of course there was also the Celtic language, Cymbric/Cumbric, but this is another beautiful story of the Indo-European saga.
You speak flawless English.
Michael Clonts Aw, thank you! That's a really kind compliment. 😊
andthenifellinlove - Yes, but according to American universities, that's a "microaggression". LOL.
Frisians and Dutch love microaggression but we both keep it healthy:)
You have talent for this. It reminds me of early videos by some of the famous RUclipsrs I’ve seen like PewDiePie (in terms of quality). With improved skills I think you could get there.
By the way, don’t they still speak Frisian in the Netherlands county of Frisia/Friesland? Some parts of Germany too I believe. From what I recall there’s 3 major versions of it still in use, with many less common sublanguages as well. By no means a dead language, despite more divergent variations like English, Dutch, and Afrikaans being more main stream.
Thank you for your comment. That is such a compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed the video and see potential.
Yes, you are correct! Frisian is still an alive language in the Netherlands. I don't speak it, unfortunately. It is funny, though, how people have come onto my path who have Frisian roots. I am not familiar with the different versions of Frisian.
Have you studied the Frisian language?
I'm about to begin learning, and there doesn't appear to be a proper course out there for it. I'm getting an introduction from the university of Groningen, but it's going to be bad, so I have to make my own course to learn it.
If you've succeeded in your education, and you speak Frisian, and you're interested, you could come help. :)
I actually havent learned the Frisian language. How exciting that you're going to learn, though! It's surprising that they don't have proper classes to learn the language. I currently teach, but I dont teach Frisian. 😉
You should try NHL Stenden University in the city Leeuwarden (capital of Frisia). 45mins ride or 30min trainride from Groningen. Alot of people in NHL university actually still speak Frisian as their mothertongue and are bi- or tri-lingual in Dtuch Frisian and English. NHL has a Frisian language course as well. Since people here mostly either speak or understand Frisian daily you will pick it up really fast here.
I am half Melanesian and half Dutch, grew up in Frisia and even I speak the language sufficiently for day to day conversation just by living here.
So: NHL Stenden University
I’m an Englishman and have always wondered who the frisians were and there history, you tell their story so well
Thank you! :-)
As an Englishman, did you notice that Anglo-Saxon military epic Beowulf is predicated largely on conflict with the Frisians :0 I wonder if it's because they weren't christian
Pardon me. But Friesland wasn't conquered. But there were trading posts here in Friesland. Franeker is the famous one. I know you do understand Dutch very well. Hope you can read Frisian as well. I hope the article still does excist. This was about the trading posts in Friesland. The article is in the paper called Friesch dagblad. (It was published over 10 years ago). I know because I worked for a few years at Friesch dagblad.
The maps of Friesland are also incorrect. The southern part reached out what is nowdays nothern France. Dunkirk. The nothern part reached in now days Den Mark. Those border lines from nowdays wiki page (related) sites are gambles and/ or incorrect. The best are real old libary books (who are totally are and well preserved).
Very nice video. (I'm in love) :)
Very inspired by your ancestors and how they made a lasting rich cultural heritage! Please keep honoring your heritage and have a big family to keep it going! 🌸💗😃
bz2unow That's such a sweet comment! Thanks!!!
awesome video :) thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
An interesting point of view and some interesting information. The Frisians were not the first on those lands. They are a germanic people that seem to have followed behind the celts for the Indo-European invasions that occurred about the bronze age and into the early iron age for western europe. Old English seems to have a greatest affinity for modern Frisian.
When the Frisian tribes got to low lands perhaps they displaced the original hunter gatherers that were there. Or maybe there celts had already done so.
Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to write your comment. It is interesting for sure. It makes sense for other people to have inhabited the land before the Frisians. History is so interesting! There's way more to discover. This is an interesting research question: who were the people before the Frisians that inhabited these lands?
@@phyliciajoykloes The lowlands were probably quite similar to what use to be doggerland. For hunter gathers it was likely a resource rich area. But farming it does take more work for sure relative to drainage and you go into what it took to do that.
As others have mentioned it is a difficult terrain for invading armies.
@@loquat44-40 For sure! The terrain was difficult to keep dry. This part of the world has always had to deal with the water. Thanks for the input. 😊
Hey, the map you give at 1:42 is sort of wrong.
Frisians did not cross the River Ems before 600 or 700 AC. Quite the opposite: the Chauci which later formed the Saxons settled west of it. This is why people in the east of the Netherlands speak Nedersaksies and not Nederfranconian:
As the Chauci/ Saxons left the coastal and River marches to conquer Britain, the Frisian started to take that land.
But the vid is really good and full of information.
Thank you for your feedback. To be honest, I wasn't too picky choosing photos to add to my video when I edited this video for my research project at school. I appreciate you took the time to watch and comment. I'm glad you liked it.
12 BC, the Romans discovered Magna Frisia. Prior to 400 AD when floods came many Frisians migrated to Kent, England & Flanders. BUT the Kent, England Frisians moved back to Friesland at some point. Frisii are the original Frisian people.
"The Frisii (Old Frisian and Old English: Frīs) 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 Frisians.
The Frisii were among the migrating Germanic tribes that settled along the North Sea in the 4th century BC. They came to control the area from roughly present-day Bremen to Bruges, and conquered many of the smaller offshore islands. In the 1st century BC, the Frisii halted a Roman advance and thus managed to maintain their independence. In the Germanic pre-Migration Period (i.e., before c. 300 AD) the Frisii and the related Chauci, Saxons, and Angles inhabited the Continental European coast from the Zuyder Zee to south Jutland. All of these peoples shared a common material culture, and so cannot be defined archaeologically. On the east they were originally bordered by the Ampsivarii who lived at the mouth of the Ems until AD 58, at which time the Chauci expelled them and gained a border with the Frisii.
The Chauci to the east were eventually assimilated by their presumed descendants the Saxons in the 3rd century. 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 lands of the Frisii were largely abandoned by c. 400 due to Migration wars, climatic deterioration and flooding caused by sea level rise. They lay empty for one or two centuries, when changing environmental and political conditions made the region habitable again. At that time, settlers that came to be known as 'Frisians' repopulated the coastal regions. Medieval and later accounts of 'Frisians' refer to these 'new Frisians' rather than to the ancient Frisii."
The Frisii were the indigenous people of the Netherlands & countries along the North Sea.
BTW, I read that artifacts were found in western Netherlands that are supposed to be of Frisian making & date back to 1750 BC.
Not all the lands were flooded and not all Frisians migrated. Als always, the sick, the old, the invalids, the poor and their caretakers with a skeleton crew to keep things up and running, stayed behind. And these Frisian people were later on 'replenished' with other (new) Frisians who came later. But they came from the same lands in Germany and Denmark etc. were the 'first' Frisians came from. They were the same people. The king of the Jutes did send taxcollecters to Frisia for a very long time because he saw them as 'of his peoples'. So, even the 'new' or 'later' Frisians are real Frisians and very related to the 'first' Frisians who went away for the floods. Just like the Turcs came in a few waves from the Asiatic steppes of Russia into the land that today is called Turkey. But in that country lived Greeks, Armenians, Kurdish tribes and Hebreeén peoples. In the lands the Frisians came there lived nobody, but it wasn't possible. We, the Frisians made in possible by draining the swamps. We took our land from out of the sea (North Sea/Frisian Sea), but the Dutch developt our land winning techniques and made international fame with us. They always did steal from us and pretented it was theirs. Typical Dutch.
@@janpopkebouma7194 When I was in Hamm visiting my mom's cousin, Heinz, I mentioned on my dad's side I am Frisian. Heinz told me along the North Sea in Germany are people who speak another language; Frisian. I read that these Frisian consider themselves Frisian FIRST, German second. BTW, my dad's 2nd cousin, Roelof Boltje, dredged/made the Copacabana. Look up R. Boltje en Zonen on youtube. There are about 18 videos of him & his business. There's a plaque at the Copacabana Beach with our name on it.
@@janpopkebouma7194 The nerve of the Dutch to FINALLY make the Frisian language an OFFICIAL language in 1955. Mighty white of the Dutch, ya think???!!! Frisian language is OLDER than the Dutch language...!!!! I found out last year via AncestryDNA that I am 6% Euro Jew. I narrowed it my my dad's side. I think his Frisian dad, my pake. I was told my pake's ancestors actually immigrated into Friesland from Giethoorn around 1750 AD for the peatbogs. These people are/were called Gietersens. Through research I found that Giethoorn was settled 1230 AD by fugitives from the Mediterranean area. Could they have been Jewish...???? I did find info stating that these fugitives were flagellants...YIKES...!!
My dad's 2nd cousin, Roelof, dredged the Copacabana.
My surname is BOLTJE not Boltjes. However, I did find info about a man, Tjeerd (??) Boltje, who gave the surname Boltje to some of his kids & the surname Boltjes to other of his kids. Weird. I have been able to trace back to my 5 time great grandfather, Hilbrand Boltje; don't know the year. BUT have traced the surname BOLTJE to about 1625. www.tresoar.nl & www.allefriezen.nl . De Vries/De Fries (The Frieze/Fries) is the #1 Frisian surname. Dijkstra & Hoekstra; 2nd & 3rd most common Frisian surnames. My great Beppe's surname was/is Waterlander.
The frisisans are rooted from the visigoths and before them the scythians. The scythians nearly destroyed Egypt on multiple occasions. Everyone feared scythians.
You can conquer us but you can't hold us
Suppressed is not the same as conquered.
During Roman times, there was Lacus Flevo, a freshwater lake. In 1287, it was flooded the day after St Luicia's day. This same body of water became the saltwater Zuyder Zee (and Amsterdam became a sea port). I would love to know more about the ship making techniques of the Frisians, I am assuming that they shared ship building techniques with their Scandinavian neighbors (so something like the Hjortspring boat?).
The Oera Linda book!
Hi, Can you tell something about king Redbard? This was a really nice vid! Thank you!
There is a movie in the making.
Redbad from Dorestad.
Its now cald Wijk bij duurstede,thats were i live now.
Correction: it was only after around the year 400, the start of the transgression period, when large parts of The Netherlands became flooded by the sea.
Thanks for commenting!
respect... from Friesland... Magna Friesia !
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The sense of community and goal focus yiu speak of is a strong Frisian cultural heritage we call in Frisian "Mienskip" (gemeenschap)
There are several Frisian leaders such as Grutte Pier king Audulf (who fought off the Franks) and the king Redbad (radboud), as well as the king Finn Folcwalding who, together with his Frisian army, is mentioned in Beowulf too.
That's awesome to know. Mienskip. I've learned a word. Thank you for taking the time to comment that. 🤗
1) The Frisians are still here and their ethic decendants make up about 20% of the dutch population living mainly in the north of the country.
2) The roman empire and the holy roman empire are not the same thing. The holy roman empire is an 9th century coalition of german dutchies and kingdoms that was formed from east francia and did at most of it's time include the netherlands.
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate you took the time to type that. I am aware I made that mistake about the Holy Roman Empire. Also, I was aware of the first fact; however, the percentage I wasn't sure of.
There are only some 300.000 of us left, the rest is Saxons or Hollandic Dutch or so called ´city Frisians´ who are mainly anti-Frisian half-Dutch former immigrants from other Hanze cities.
@@janpopkebouma7194 My grandparents are from Emden but I am American. Most of their siblings still live there. Does that make me real? Where do the others live? It seems there are three groups. Very religious evangelical Dutch in Iowa and MI, tiny amt of moderate Lutherans in South Dakota and maybe Canada, and Catholics in St Boniface Minnesota. Does that sound right? Do they all get along?
@@topaz898989 Emden is in the northern part of Germany, but these are old Frisian grounds. Our people lived from the northern part of France right up to Bremen-Hamburg and then up the shoreline of western Denmark. "Does it make you real?" I don't know what you mean. You're of Frisian parents, so that make you Frisian by Germanic tribe, if your grandparents were 'real' dna-frisians. When your grandparents were immigrants from a former German colony in Afrika, for example Namibië, then they just lived in Emden as foreigners. - American is just an administrative-juridical status, it is not a people/nation/tribe. It's a fake construct, just as Nederlanders/Dutch. - I speak of nations/people/tribes/natives, and Frisians, Juten, Schwaben, Skandi, Saxons etc. those are tribes, those are real nations, with a big part of their people/members still dna intact. But dna isn't everything of course. You also have to look like a native and speak like a native. But when you make up a people/nation with all kinds of people just to bind them together via a new administrative-economic-juridical system, because you want to 'steal' or 'integrate' the people you defeated in their lands, or you want to incorporate a lot of other stolen people, like slaves, then it doesn't matter what dna you have, everybody can become American or Netherlander/Dutch, because it has nothing to do with the original tribes you stole the land from. Frisians in the Netherland, Schwaben in Germany, Skandi or Sami in Sweden are just the same as the native Indian tribes in America. With the same problems, with the same losses, with maybe even more suppression. We don't even have 'reservates' or 'safe spaces' just to be our selves with our children.
We are harassed on a daily base via our own children with our 'destroyers' because of the Hollandic schools, or via the television with only Dutch programmes, or via international progressive left/liberal pressure to mix all the peoples toghether in one big melting pot with all our little tribes/nations and languages/cultures and traditions/folklore (festivals, songs, poëts etc.) rubbed out of existance only because we are white. Foreign/imported minorities like Arabs (700 million worldwide) or Turcs (200 million worldwide) are getting subsidies to learn the language of their (grand)parents, and we are only a few hundred thousand worldwide, we can't learn via our own taxmoney our own language. This is evil.
I think you'll make an excellent teacher. Good luck!
Thank you so much! :-)
well done!
Thank you very much! :-)
Don’t forget the East Frisians 😍now part of Germany. Not all of us Frisians are Dutch 🤓
That's true! 🤗🤗
A Frisian is a frisian. Lol my ex wife and my son are frysk
Very interesting, I didn't know their language influenced Latvian as well! I've got Norman and Scanian ancestry but there's probably some Frisian in that..
Thanks for the time to watch the video! History is pretty awesome to dig into.
thank you young lady, the y dna in my father's line seems to originate in freesia, so it was nice to learn something about the ancient peoples I am descended from
@@gruilen I think I do, pretty sure it is.
They actually did get to Friesland at some point. But they only stayed there for a couple of years.
Freisland rocks! My mother is Frisian.
ronald baden Yes, it rocks for sure! 😊
ik houd van je video. ik weet niet hoe Frisian ben ik, maar mijn naam heeft Nederlandse geschiedenis. Sorry for my Dutch, your video is very interesting.
Ontzettend bedankt! :-) Your Dutch is fine; I totally understood what you wrote. I'd recommend looking into your genealogy, and I bet you'll discover some interesting facts!
andthenifellinlove yes, I have done some research by geneanet. My grandfather's family was from Leuven and my grandmother's family frontera Terveuren, both in Belgium. Sadly my name has been changed just a letter, instead of Vanderhoeght, Vanderhoegft. But that makes a little difficult go farther on the past.
I'm glad to hear you gave it a go! And that's so interesting. Do you know why the change of letters occurred? Did your family move to another country or region when the name changed for the first time?
andthenifellinlove It was around 1800 but I'm not sure why. I think that f was changed by gh in an error of scripture. I am currently living in Uruguay, my grandparents came here after the second world war.
Wow, crazy how an error remained to exist! I'm sorry to hear your grandparents had to leave the Netherlands after World War 2. I wonder if your grandparents have come back to the Netherlands at all after they settled in Uruguay.
Beautiful
Great video, i am proud to be Frisian.
Jacob Frederik Kootstra That's great to hear!
Moin from the saxonian netherlands - a small enclave on german territory, where the people still speak twente platt. In all directions you find here another lower german dialect or speach. northwest are the west frisians, north the east frisians, east the amsivarii, southeast the munsterländer and south the chauks. all sound and spell a bit different, but you can head along the coast far, far east to prussia - and will still find people, you can understand without problems. the midage "hanse" culture could be reason for this wide spread.
I am also from the Netherlands. Now living in the US since I was 5 years old I was always interested in history but what we were taught things that were not accurate they never gave credit to Cornelius Schouten who discovered Cape Hoorn. My mom is Frisian.
Friesland = Land of the Fries. Yum!
Yay you're bk how are u its been ages hope all is well with u.
Hey! :-) I've been inactive for too long; I'm sorry. I'll be working on footage to upload for you, so stay tuned. I'm doing well, though. I hope you're doing great yourself! :-)
Good presentation. The Frisians were awesome warriors, awesome vegetable & dairy farmers. As an Anglo-Saxon I am sure I have Frisian ancestors.
Hold on to your Dutch identity.
Thank you so much!
finally an accurate (or close) fighting scene, never thought they would jump on them though lol
Haha, I'm glad you liked it. After I saw the movie, I had to integrate it into my research project.
@@phyliciajoykloes thank you for your video , have a nice day :)
@@angelaflying9591 Thank you! U wish you a great day too. 🤗
I'm Dutch and i say it's bullshit to be proud or feel connected to our ancestors or nationality. We are nothing like them, we did nothing at all. And if the Romans had really wanted to they would have wiped out the lot of them. But it was just an insignificant far away place and they had plenty of other wars to fight they considered more important. Just like they had only marginal interest in parts of Britain for a while and simply figured "screw the rest of that place, we don't care about it".
It's only inflated egoism when people say we are so damn proud...we are so badass just like the old tribes that lived here...bla bla bla.
Interesting thought. I am Dutch too and not Frisian, but I was interested in researching the part of the Netherlands where I was born. Everyone differs, I think. I believe it probably has a lot to do with how someone's raised. For example, when I hear my grandmother's story about how her grandfather walked away from the Germans during the WW2, I feel lucky to be alive since live happened in such a way where today happened to be today. I am not saying I am like my ancestors. I find it interesting that you got that from the video.
@@phyliciajoykloes Hey there. I'm a total history fan myself! And i wasn't really adressing you as much as some of the comments really. To me it is idiotic being proud of where i was born. Flag waving and nationalism is a scurge in history that has tortured and killed millions...stupid pride and all included.
It is idiotic being proud of your ancestors like the Frysians. We may as well be proud of the Heidelberg people 600,000 years ago or the Dutch resistance under Nazi ocupation but we had nothing to do with that either.
It's interesting you mention WW2 because the Nazi's made desperate attempts to search for reasons to be proud in their (faked) history as well. That should ring alarm bells for anyone...
My grandparents were both resistance heroes who helped many Jews and received medals...i take no pride in that either. I take pride in what i do myself. And so should you! Be proud of your own work! Not the fact you were born somewhere or had ancestors. A baker can take pride in the bread he bakes...an artist can be proud of a painting or sculpture he made and so on. It does not matter where that bread was baked or that painting made. It does not matter if their great great great grandmother was baking bread or painting.
Anyway, thanks for the info about the Frysians because like you i was curious as well :)
You will find my work on my channel, as well as much history in my playlists. There some great lectures in there and especially about prehistory which i find even more fascinating.
So much to learn about that and the past year was probably the most exiting ever with some mindblowing discoveries such as Jebl Irhoud and again Denisova...an incredible site that just keeps on giving.
Another record setting find published just 10 days ago!
siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/cave-lion-figurine-made-of-woolly-mammoth-tusk-found-at-denisova-cave/
But history of more recent times has also been spectacular with the LIDAR research lately.
Turns out the Maya civilization was 30 times bigger than previously known..and they discovered an enormous civilization in The Amazon nobody even had a clue about!
Heb een fijne week Phylicia :)
My ancestors were Frisian, specifically from Aurich and Leer. So maybe we have similar ancestry. Just a little.
As you say, these ancient battles were long ago, before you were alive. I can see how it's difficult to connect yourself to their culture. In the modern Netherlands today I can see how you feel nothing like them at all.
But in 1860, a man named Franz sailed with his father across the Atlantic for two months to come to the United States. He fought in our civil war and later gave his name to freed African slaves. He gained farmland. His descendent, my great-grandfather, fought the Japanese and came back with ears he had collected. His son, my grandfather left their own state and traveled to Georgia, because he had become skilled and secured a better life than farming.
I too, joined our military when I was young and used the money and benefits to provide a better future for my family. I was a mechanic but my son will be a doctor.
Wasn't that exactly what the Frisians did?
If (like the Romans) someone came and took my children as slaves, I'd hang those bastards and burn their shit down too.
You make me glad to be American and not Dutch. I don't know what you've lost but I know I still have it.
What happened to the duck language? I know early sellers spoke it 1776 after let me know.
Pliny the Elder...survived the Frisians....killed by a volcano. Damn, that's rough. At least the eruption was named after him. 🌋
I didn't know this until now!
andthenifellinlove Yeah, he was killed in trying to rescue people from a seaside resort during the famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. To this day, we call that type of eruption a Plinian eruption.
Frisian are NOT Dutch. The North Frisian of Germany consider themselves Frisian 1st, German 2nd. AND that's what the Frisian in the Nederlands should do. The Dutch tried to eradicate the Frisian language & culture. It was ONLY in 1955 that the Frisian language was accepted as an official language. AND more recently, Frisian is being taught in Friesland & Groningen, as it should be. This is an insult that it took this long for the Frisian language to become an official language...!!!! The Frisian language is so much older than the Dutch language. Dutch people CANNOT understand or speak Frisian. I was in the Nederlands visiting my Frisian cousin's friend, Antoon. He told me he could NOT speak or understand Frisian because it was too complicated.
The Frisian/Frisii were discovered 12 BC but not to be found in 4 AD...maybe due to floods, etc. Some Frisian went to Kent, England & Flanders. When the Anglo-Saxon wars broke out, the Frisian in England went back to Magna Frisia/Friesland. Magna Frisia covered the coastal areas from Belgium to Denmark. Frisian artifacts found have been dated back to 1750 BC.
The Dutch OWE their freedom to the Frisian. The Dutch have a saying, "You're not much if you're not Dutch". I say, you're not much if you are Dutch. FRYSLAN BOPPE...!!!!! MAKE FRYSLAN GREAT AGAIN...!!!!! BTW, my Pake is from Friesland.
LOL...are you for real??? I will have to ask my Frisian friend about this. I think, you're joking...
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FRISIAN ARE NOT DUTCH...THEY ARE FRISIAN...!!!! The Frisian were in that area of the Nederlands first. You need to study this history. The majority of Dutch cannot understand Frisian. Talk about ignorance...look at yourself first. I never posted "hate"...HMMM...maybe you do hate. Frisian language is closest to English NOT Dutch. NOT "ALL ethnic Dutch are descended from the Old Frisian". Frisian are descended from the Old Frisian. Frisian artifacts have been discovered in northern west Nederlands that date back to 1750 BC. PATHETIC...SMH
REALLY...???!!! Then WHY did a TRUE Frisian woman tell me the info I am posting??. She grew up in the Nederlands with biases against/towards the Frisian. My FRISIAN friend refers to you as "Dingaling Brinnosch".
Cataline Brinnosch, you'd better do some research yourself before accusing anyone of being "ignorant".
There is tremendous animosity against Frisians in the Netherlands espécially from many Dutch - in fact, it's just about the only group with ethnicist tendencies.
Frisians - or, as you call them "Friezen", are not Dutch. These are two different and very distinct ethnic groups. After your bizarre claim "yes Friezen are Dutch" you suddenly divert to "It just depends on how you define 'Dutch'." Your argument is silly, as Dutch is an ethnic group - it is only claimed as a "blanket term" for inhabitants of The Netherlands in order to hide ethnicism, the colonization of Frisia and the oppression of indigenous peoples.
The Seventeen Provinces during the sixteenth century were composed of four primary ethnicities, and the predecessor of today's The Netherlands was the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, with the secession of Belgique taking two of the primary ethnicities with them, after which the Holland government proceded to violate every single treaty and illegally annexing much of the Frisian territories, diminishing every single Lordship, Duchy etc. to a lower level 'County', or 'Province', thereby hiding their occupation.
You go on about language: Standard Dutch ís Hollandic - it is not only taught wíth in all schools for every single subject, it is taught as a subject "Nederlands", which is a country not a language, thereby further hiding the fact they are destroying the indigenous language Fryske, which for a time was banned from being taught to anyone at all, going so far as criminalizing anyone who spoke it - the latter still being in effect arbitrarily, again to hide the fact the Dutch colonizers are destroying a Nation: the most effective way to commit ethnic genocide is by banning the language to next generations. So the oppression is real, has been for more than 500 years, and is currently being perpetrated by the exclusively Dutch - major race (ethnicity) only - gouvernment of The Netherlands, which should represent all ethnicities on their soil, not just the Dutch. It is one of the most blatant supremacy cases in the modern world, and quite possibly the worst of all western society.
So the language case you brought up is not only incorrect, it in no way makes a case like you claim "Frisians are Dutch", which is epically false. The others are provinces: human beings are not to be degraded to making them identifiable by a mere piece of land - your comparison is dehumanizing to Frisians.
Etnic Dutch are not descended from Old Frisians - where do you even get this nonsense? Dutch is a different ethnic group, not native to The Netherlands - they are on taken land. It seems yóu are confused, as modern day Frisians and ancient Frisians are an ethnic group which traces back tens of thousands of years - perhaps more - and are áll Frisians, as they are today. Indigenous, with a heritage its own.
It’s funny that I am half Frisian despite not even looking Frisian. Being part of two minority groups (Frisia in the Netherlands and Manado in Indonesia) made me interested in learning cultures and languages. It’s sad though to know that the cultures are dying though.. Would’ve loved to know some Frisian... Now the only Frisian thing about me is my last name Boersma. Wich does come handy though when applying for jobs as Frisian are known to be good and honest people👍🏼
How lovely that you've got such roots! I understand that the thought of a culture dying out is sad; however, by learning and telling stories we keep these heritages alive. I have yet to learn more Frisian myself. Also, isn't it interesting how such biases exist and stay prominent?
The Frisians who lived during Roman times where a completely different people. Time you take history lessons.
What exactly do you mean with they were completely different people? I was researching what people lived in that particular part of the world that we now call the Netherlands where I grew up. The Frisians is the term that I found. I am aware that there are Frisians niw that don't live in that exact same spot as what I researched.
Interesting video. My father's family comes from the river area from Arnhem thru Utrecht. Because of the heavy Roman presence along the rivers I got interested in researching the history. You are correct in saying the Frisians fought back against Rome but there is a little more to the story :-). Julius Caesar went up the N.Holland strip or tried to. His legions were defeated in at least two good fights and decided to withdraw from the area. The land was too heavily forested and was totally unsuited to Roman Legion tactics and the Frisians took advantage of the forests to ambush the legions repeatedly (ala Teutonberg Forest later on). Also N.Holland was a thinner strip of land than it is now.
Later on when Rome was more established in the region many young Frisians joined the Roman legion as auxilary troops. Frisians also liked to trade with the Romans and vice versa. Romans were fond of the Frisian's ox-hides or bull-hides. Not sure what made them special. Its fascinating that Frisians were a distinct enough group to be recognized by the Romans so long ago.
The only thing that prevented Friesland from being conquered by the Romans was the Rhine river.
Pedro Paulo Guilhardi I wouldn't say the only thing.
Pedro Paulo Guilhardi How s that so ,The Romans had no problem with water Crossing
That's how they first attacked the Gauls and later Germans?
Could you elaborate?
Emperor August defined the natural borders of the Roman empire to be the Rhine and the Danube in the north, the Euphrate in the east, and the Sahara desert in the south. When Trajanus conquered the Parthians, he was in violation of that dictate, so his successor Hadrian restored the old borders and gave the Parthians their sovereignity back. However, the influence of Rome stretched far beyond it's borders ever since it became a major power in the Italian peninsula. Frisia back then was extremely difficult to conquer because of flooding (people lived on terps). Likewise, the Romans endured many defeat in the German woods. It's just not a favourable conditions for military warfare. However, the Frisians depended on trade a lot, so they could not deny Rome :)
something like the united states army and vietnam,
The swampy terrain is not favorable for a heavy infantry similar to the Roman legion.
however the Batavians and Friesians served as Roman auxiliaries for quite some time.
Like the rest of the tribes that later became Romanized (Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians, etc.) all served as foedarati.
Indeed, dears Phylicia and John Bland. The expression I used "the only thing' is too extremist and not too accurate. Of course there are several uncountless factors that count. However, if the Frisians lived on the Wester shore of the Rhine, nowadays the Dutch would be speaking some latin variation. The people from Flanders and Luxemburg, for instance, came to their present-day territory after the Roman Empire was too weak (after the Justinian plague) to defend itself from the Barbaric incursions. Germanic tribes had no resources, engineer and logistics to defeat the Roman army in a war.
Yes, I know, I know about Teutoburg forest. They (the germanic tribes under the influence of a roman general) won the battle. They didn't win the war. A few years later, another roman general, Germanicus, returned there, buried the dead, retrieved the Eagles and burned several villages. However, the Germanic victory in Teutoburg forest dissuaded the Roman inteligentia to expand their territory on Eastern Rhine.
The Romans had the ability to cross any river, but crossing is something... maintaning such a territory in one's control for decades or centuries, is another thing.
My mom's Frysian and my dad's Gronings (Lower Saxon). My surname is a very old Saxon name.
Nice video and good to do research on Your background!
And Yes the Dutch geography and history is quiet a complex one. I’m from the capital that doesn’t house the government or the Royal family; Amsterdam (That used to be the capital of the Dutch Republic after Antwerp, currently Belgium! fell to the Spanish army) but I bear A Frisian name that used to be Hoeksema-Boninga, But my Great grand father dropped the second name out of principle the second name was granted in the middle ages because our ancestors developed a method to dye textile dark blue, wich was a colour reserved for aristrocrats. The family was given the right to bare a second aristocratic name which my great-grand father resented because he who worked him self up from a orphan to a director of a ships engine company felt that all people should be equal.
Then there is Frisians who say that the names ending with: “ga” are from Groningen. But our family crest is in the Frisian museum and he did marry a woman from Groninger family Kraaima. This all happend in pre-war Amsterdam so a Frisian and a Groningian in the capital of the Netherlands. Are they Dutch? In Friesland they usually don not like to be referred to as ‘Dutch’ since they fought just as hard as hard against the Graaf van Holland as they did against any conqueror before them! They are part of a culture that was linked to the Scandinavian tribes and during the Viking age their coastal towns delivered longboats and rowers to the viking fleet.
Their greatest hero is Great Pier, a farmer of 2,15 meter who handed a two handed sword of 2,12 meters! he fought against the german Saxons and the Dutch and anybody that could not pronounce a certain sentence in Frisian on demand would be killed by him.
And also a large part of the Netherlands did get conquered by the Romans, and they did influence the Dutch culture very much by founding city’s building roads and bridges, and also other conquerors like Habsburg-Spain, Napoleonic France and Hitler German occupation did influence everything in our culture, language philosophy etc.
The Dutch who themselves conquered and colonized many countries around the world like Brazil, New Amsterdam (NY) the Antilles, Dutch-Indonesia, Sri-Lanka and they did bring their influence upon these cultures....
First off, thank you so much for writing such a detailed comment. The way you described it all was a lovely read. I love history, and I wanted to learn more. As far as I know, you know a whole lot about your own heritage. So cool!!! What you mentioned about the Frisian saying, I went to Leeuwarden a couple of months ago where I also read a sentence on the wrapping paper of a beer bottle that said something similar as what you described. I wonder if it is the same saying. I couldn't pronounce it since my heritage is coming a lot more from the Holland generation. (I was born and raised in Hoorn, but my parents come from Amsterdam, or the Zaanstreek. Also, some roots are from Germany). I love history and learning! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write all of that out. Where did you learn/research all of this?
I think we can not mention Friesian history without mentioning the “ Batavieren “ as this Germanic tribe had a great impact on the “ low lands “ This little part of Western Europe with its unique history and battle with the sea and it’s resilient people I am proud to be part of. Thank you for this tutorial, very interesting indeed. As a “ Hollander “ I have always had the greatest respect for my Friesian cousins !
Thank you for watching and leasing a comment. I agree with you, the Frisians weren't alone. I could've gone into more depth about that. 😉
Fraisa, was een koningkrijk, de eerste in nederland rond 500 BC. met koning Redbard (Radbout)
Bedankt voor de info! :-)
die bruut vermoord werd door de vikingen (denen geloof ik):-P
Ricky I wouldn't be surprised! De geschiedenis zit interessant in elkaar...
He died because of a disease. But there have been issues with Vikings after the Frisians became to be a colony of the Franconian empire.
The biggest crime commited bye Vikings on Frisians was in Rome, say 900 years ago. Sicilia based Vikings killed the entire Frisian expat community after the army of the Holy German empire was forced out of Rome.
This community was founded in 799, the year when the Frisian army occpuied Rome for the emperor to be of the Caroling empire and then told the emperor: "We need to talk about some things before we will also led you in"
This emperor might have been thinking: ""The Frisians can do the hard work". Well, there was a price to be paid for this :)
BTW a movie about Redbad is coming up, he was the last not Christian leader of Frisians.
www.redbadthemovie.com/
+Frisian Songs Mienskip Thank you for all the info!
Thanks for sharing this video. About the frisians lovely history video. I also am dutch with frisian roots i from Groningen. Like to see more videos in the future great Job.
Thank you so much for watching, and also for taking the time to comment. :-) I am Dutch as well, and although I was born in Hoorn, Noord-Holland, I find it very interesting to discover how the original people where I live lived like back in the day.
@@phyliciajoykloes i also studied germanic tribes as well. History is part of who we are today. And we have a lot to be thankfull of because of our ancestors. Het ga je goed en bedankt voor je video.
@@koosmeinders2667 That's so cool! I totally agree. If one event were to be different or not happen at all, everything would be different today. It definitely helps shape communities and individuals. Bedankt voor je bericht! Ik wens jou ook al het goede. 😊
@@phyliciajoykloes but Hoorn is West Friesland :) Ik heb zelf een aantal jaren in Medemblik gewoond en mijn grootouders spraken West Fries, wat toch wel wat anders is dan normaal Fries.
@@xXTheoLinuxXx Ja, dat klopt zeker. Toen ik dat deel van Nederland onderzocht, kwam ik erachter dat toendertijd de Friezen er woonden. West-Fries en Fries is natuurlijk anders.
Im Frisian but my family left Europe in 1650 and moved to New York. I got some German and Irish in me too but my physical appearance is Dutch. BTW the Dutch are the tallest people in the world which is an indication of their healthy diet. Some Dutch guy told me that the Frisians are extremely stubborn. You dont tell them what to do or how to live because they have their own ideas about those subjects and you are NOT gonna change their minds.
If you are (mostly) Frisian, how so is it that your "physical appearance is Dutch"❓
I once went to an all-Dutch large (few thousand) college with the exception of me and my biological brother, both of us ethnically Frisian - all Dutch came up to my shoulder, and to his chest.
@@inkstertourist it's why we have a saying carved in stone. 'Leaver dea as slaef'. It means: Rather die then be a slave. During the 2nd World War we went on strikes so long that the German officers had to call the bigger chiefs back home about what to do about it. So they got the order to set a curfew and shot at everyone who was outside unawares at the time. However instead of the Frisians backing down they united even more. So much so that there was a specific village that they named 'terrorist village' they knew they were there somewhere hiding they just couldn't get to them or so I was told.
Liked this.
Thank you for taking your time to watch and to leave a comment.
Holland should leave the EU. That would be the frisians freeing themselves from the romans again.
what about conquering the EU ;-)
Not bad for someone giving a talk in a language Not their native language, I couldn't do that. (Just a 'heads up', when people rebel, we say they 'revolted', Not 'revolved'. And as someone else has Commented, we think you meant Pliny the Elder, Not 'Plinty the Elder'.)
forestsoceansmusic Thank you so much for your comment. Haha, yes I did make some mistakes. 😉 I appreciate you took the time to comment.
My paternal grandfather was Frisian, my paternal grandmother German.
So I'm equally glad the Frisians beat the Romans back and maintained their homes.
If they hadn't, I probably wouldn't be here.
Right? Neither would I. The historic events affect the present.
Also, check out the movie War Lord with Chuck Heston. He is a Norman knight protecting his fief from Frisian raiders - good action movie. The Frisians were/are some serious blond badasses.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Drusus was the brother of future emperor Tiberius. Tiberius was not his father. Emperor Augustus adopted the 2 brothers via Mariage with Livia Drusilla (their mother).
VolumedMusicMan Thanks for the clarification. 😉
andthenifellinlove No worries I’ve been an I,Claudius fan since childhood. Poor Drusus died of gangrene. He was one of the few good Romans. The rest mostly pagans lol! I myself Anglo/ Dutch/ American. You have a nice web sight. Peace, BHS
Wow, history is fascinating!
So, where do I begin? At least half of what you say is plain wrong. 1. The IJsselmeer did not exist at roman times. 2. The Romans never attacked Frisia. The Frisians had to pay taxes and the sons of high ranking Frisians were forced to romanize (as with all other Germanic tribes at the time). 3. The Frisians of then, dissapeared. They mixed with Saxons and Franks and lower Rhine tribes. This happened after the Romans left the lower Rhine region. That is logical, as there was now finally room to go south. 4. Frisians did not trade primarily. They did trade, also over sea, but primarily they were farmers. There has never been found or mentioned any Frisian harbor of any substance. 5. So, Dorestad was not a Frisian city, but Batavian. 6. Frisians had an uprising twice against the romans. Although they were initially successful, they lost to the Romans. The Romans did not occupy Frisia. Another proof that they were not interested in it. 7. The Netherlands is not a historic consequence of Frisia as the Frisians dissapeared completely (to France and Belgium and some to England). The current Frisians are Danes and Saxons. 8. The origin of the Dutch is very mixed. Maybe some Frisian, but mostly Saxon and Frankish (lower Rhine Germanic tribes). 9. The origin of the Dutch language is not Frisian. It is lower Franconian. 10. The holy Roman Empire did not exist until the 12th century. There are many more mistakes in your video, but I leave it at that.
I truly appreciate you took the time to write our the errors you noticed. I am aware of the wrong names I gave to the Zuiderzee and the Holy Roman Empire. I researched this topic when I was in college, so I bet there's more information out there now. I will consider to think critically more often when doing my research.
@@phyliciajoykloes Good! Uhm.... maybe make a new video?? And the Zuiderzee did not exist at Roman times either. It was still land with a river (the IJssel maybe,, don't know which one actually) ending in what now is the Waddenzee. It was land, is my point, not yet water. There was a "mare Flevum that suggests that the IJsselmeer or Zuiderzee was starting to develop and surely the land that was there was maybe not permanent land anymore. But if you look at maps of the Netherlands of year zero, you will see what I mean.
@@ronaldderooij1774 I am not planning on remaking this video, altgough I am aware of the flaws. Thank you for the sources!