Mostly speculation, neo romantic, and a lot of wishful thinking. Almost no archeological or historical evidence.

Gooeie! (or should is that the wrong greeting?) Anyways thank you for uploading and making a website for Frisian! I was a big fan of history and when I wanted to learn a language I wonder which to pick. I remembered that there was a language close to English! and have and still am trying to learn west Frisian and its history. Your website was a big help as sadly there are little resources for finding about the language. But with the help of your website and a few books I am starting to learn a lot! I was surprised when I searched for videos on Frisian and saw one of yours. Anyways as I was trying to state tige tank!

The Zwartbles is a breed of domestic sheep originating in the Friesland region of the north Netherlands. There it was primarily used for the production of sheep milk as well as lamb and mutton. They were often kept alongside dairy cattle herds. Breed characteristics The Zwartbles has a striking appearance: a black/brown fleece, a white blaze on the face, 2 - 4 white socks, and a white tail tip (which is traditionally left undocked). Both rams and ewes are polled. The Zwartbles are relatively large sheep: ewes weigh an average of 85 kg (187 lb), and rams 100 kg (220 lb). The dense fleece ranges from black to brown with sun bleached tips, some silvering may be present in older animals. The wool is medium to fine with excellent crimp and fibre length, a Bradford count of 54-56 and a micron count of 27 making it popular for spinning and felting. Zwartbles are known for being docile, friendly, easy lambing, prolific, milky and being excellent mothers. Also they are good in showing. History Traditionally used for both milk and meat in the Netherlands, they declined significantly in use until listed as critically rare by the Dutch Rare Breed Survival trust in the mid-1970s. The first Zwartbles were imported to the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. The UK Zwartbles Sheep Association was formed in 1995. I AM UK FLOCK 100

From excavations all over the world, we can find Frisian earthenware and jewellery weapons long before the Scandinavian Vikings existed. Frisians are the ancestors of the English and the Scandinavians. Their language alone shows that they are daughters of the Frisian language. But DNA also tells the story of the past. The behaviour of the Frisians, the trade and the warring and discovery of new territories has been taken over by the Scandinavians. But the Frisians had been doing this for centuries before.

I wan to learn Frisian too! How much?

In the movie Beowulf the Frissians are mentioned .

Too much repetition, poor.

Sounds like they are just regular Vikings to me. Humans like to copy success, so no doubt they influenced Norwegian and Danish cultures and probablly even intermarried with them. Currently it appears that all they really want to do is grow Tulips.

How much have I enjoyed this! Tige dank.

Explorers? NAH. They just went to allready known places.

terrible video. dialogues would have been better just displayed not on such poor repeated images.

They were not vikings, but frisians. Their ship had different look. And they was A trading partner with vikings. There is not much mystery about them. They were a trading hub. They never visit the North with their ships. Cos their never needed. Nor was they buildt for it. North had to go there. Their frisians ship was for the british canal and rivers. Cargo vessels. Norsemen would ususally never go further then frisians until Charlemagne made trouble to trade. Many frisians took work on Viking raids. Both unvolenteer and volenteer. But to call them "vikings" is not accurate. In the end vikings raided them so much that their many city dorestad vannished..

next it will be the Jutes and Wends

I hope someone can answer this for me. My great grandmother was a "Welker" before marrying my Grt grandfather. My grandma always said Welker was Dutch. but house of names says it's "High German." whatever that means. But a German friend of mine says it's not German. Well, what the heck is it?

Typical modern viewpoint thumbnail. Because women always were Kardashian lookalikes

just for a fun fact NO RB1b females have silver hair and gray eyes ,, but no RB1a girls have red hair , so we can prolly find the genetic split ? Yamani ? or global amphora ? or corded were ? but befo before Beker people with understanding that red is last hapo group slit from RBIb but with not anuf mail to propagate a new hapo split

Looks like a AI generated short film..

Think this is most wrong i ever heard. Frisians always been swamp area. But its the best trading place in Europe even to this day. Holland is trade nation and always been. They traded, and had ship never going North. But went in Europe river and to Britain. Their ships never was designed for voages like the vikings ship.. They had ally in norse, but ended in war with them.

Why should I learn Frisian? I speak English, Welsh. Latin, French, Turkish, and I am learning Gaelic, Polish, and Breton. So why Frisian? Especially since they are not a Celtic culture or race.

Frisian were not Vikings!! Who wrote this script? Frisians actually fought the Vikings! I mean, this is exactly the big deal behind their success. It's like saying "the Chinese Samurai" because they all have Asian aspect. What you're doing is stripping a whole people from its identity, and relegate it to a different entity, in order to give it some aspect of romanticism or "glory" due the the Vikings fame in modern days. First of all, for a long time North Frisia constituted the southmost line of Germanic tribes expansion south of Scandinavia, so we're talking about before Vikings existed as such (who did exist were Jutes, and people tend to mix all of these peoples one with the other). Centuries afterwards, the best part of the 9th Century was covered by campaigns between Frisian and Vikings, following the attacks of Vikings on East Frisia (up to the river mouth of the Waal (Dutch Rhine). There is a whole period of time with confrontations between both around Magna Frisia (which means most of the Frisian land, excluding North Frisia), so how can both be the same? Already at the beginning of this period, the Frisians received from Charlemagne permission to leave aside all their duties obligations in order to concentrate of defeating the Vikings (Frisia Magna was under the Carolingian dynasty at the time). And then, in the Battle of Norditi (884) they expelled the Vikings from Frisia FOREVER (first regional power in achieving this). And prior to this they received from Charles the Bald the recognition of a free region (Frisian Freedom). So let's leave fantasy land and not teach our children those fairly tail stories, especially in a channel which is supposed to concentrate on this theme. Frisians have a history to be proud of, they don't need the history of others for that. By the way, North Frisians (where I have some family from) have even a different history, setting them apart from other Frisians. They also have their own epic achievements. In 1252 they succeeded to gather up an army made of islanders and people from the Mainland and defeated the Danes (actually, the Danish king fell in this battle). Didn't help them for a long time though, because the floods and tidal surges pushed them out of the region for some time (this is when the North Frisian islands, and some f the East Frisian islands, were created).

Sorry, but endless slopes of one and the same coputer generated ship are no proof that they existed.

the place were germania becomes slovacia all European language have a split at this location - for better or worst (ww2) -- -> Wismar (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪsmaʁ]; Low German: Wismer), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (Hansestadt Wismar) is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city of Mecklenburg after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. The city was the third-largest port city in former East Germany after Rostock and Stralsund. Wismar is located on the Bay of Wismar of the Baltic Sea, directly opposite the island of Poel, that separates the Bay of Wismar from the larger Bay of Mecklenburg. The city lies in the middle between the two larger port cities of Lübeck in the west, and Rostock in the east, and the state capital of Schwerin is located south of the city on Lake Schwerin. Wismar lies in the northeastern corner of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, and is the capital of the district of Northwestern Mecklenburg. The city's natural harbour is protected by a promontory. The uninhabited island of Walfisch, lying between Wismar and the island of Poel, administratively belongs to the borough of Wismar-Wendorf. It is estimated that Wismar was founded in 1226 under Henry Borwin I, Lord of Mecklenburg from the House of Mecklenburg, a German dynasty of Slavic origin also known as the Obotrites or Niklotides. In 1259, the city became part of the Hanseatic League. Throughout its history, the city has been under control of various German states as well as the Swedish Empire. It was part of Sweden from 1648 until 1803 (de jure until 1903, when Sweden officially renounced its claims to the city), and this Swedish chapter of the city is celebrated annually with a large "Sweden Celebration". From 1815 until 1918, Wismar lay in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and later in the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Wismar is a typical representative of the Hanseatic League with its city-wide Brick Gothic structures and iconic gabled patrician houses and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List alongside the historical old town of Stralsund in 2002.[3] Wismar is the seat of Hochschule Wismar, a university of applied sciences, one of nine institutions of higher education in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. With MV Werften Wismar, the city is one of three cruise ship-producing locations of MV Werften (along with Rostock and Stralsund), and the shipyard with its tall white-blue hall is one of the city's largest employers. St. George's, St. Nicholas' and St. Mary's, of which only the tower is left standing, are the three iconic sacred buildings dominating the skyline of Wismar. History Wismar in the 16th century The name of the settlement was first recorded in the 12th century as Visemer, Wismar (1147, 1167), Wyssemaria (1229)[1][4] and is probably of Slavic origin although finally disputed. Wismar could have the same os. origin like the german city Weimar[5] Wismar was part of the Western Slavic Obotrites' territory. The exact date of the city's foundation is not clear. In the oldest existing document of Wismar of 1229 its civic rights are already established. In 1301 Wismar came under the rule of the House of Mecklenburg.[6] In 1259 Wismar joined a defensive agreement with Lübeck and Rostock, in order to effectively counter the numerous Baltic pirates. Subsequently more cities of the northern Holy Roman Empire would agree to cooperate as commerce and trade was increasingly coordinated and regulated. These policies would provide the basis for the development of the Hanseatic League. By the 13th and 14th centuries Wismar had grown into a flourishing Hanseatic trading hub and an important center of wool processing. Although around 2,000 of its inhabitants perished during the plague of 1376, the town remained reasonably prosperous until the 16th century.[7][8]

Trolling? You are not the first to claim dutch Vikings. But whats the point of appropriating the classic Vikinghistory on the poor Frisians. At least argue the claim beyond repeating general vikinghistory. Frisians are real, and they were invaded by real Vikings, but sorry Mac, they were not Vikings. They were not superior ocean navigators compared to the west scandinavians. They (probably) never reached beyond the short trip to the british Isles. They were inferior warriors compared to most of the scandinavians. They may have raided, but never invaded anything on their own, more than as part of another force

I read other people, adding what they know about the Friesians and Friesian culture often after this exploring trading and rating. Of the early middle ages but I see that you repeat the same video scenes over and over again so you’re not really imparting anything new and interesting you don’t have much to bring to the table. Hopefully you can find a viewership that agrees with you because you stroke there sense of identity and their egos but you don’t educate people who are impartial viewers

Venedi = Slav to be able to speak // all else people unable to speak are dumb “strana”,stranger , dumb is THEM = Them being Germanic language users -Russian and Ukrainian use the ino- prefix for “foreign” and Russians add “straněc” from “strana”, a country, to say that it is a person from another country. So Russians has inostraněc. No other language has a true cognate to this word. -Ukrainian is closest but replaces the Russian -straněc by -zěměcj, from another word for a land, so it is inozěměcj. Polish also uses the same combination but both parts are replaced by materially different word. Ino- becomes cudzo- and -straněc becomes ziemiec, much like in Ukrainian, from another noun for a land. So it is cudzoziemiec in Polish. -Czech and Slovak simplify the Polish things a bit and only keep the cudzo- part with a simple suffix, so it is cizinec in Czech and cudzinec in Slovak. Bulgarian has a surprisingly similar word to the Slovak one, cužděněc (a similar word also exists in Ukrainian as a secondary one), but its de facto dialect, Macedonian, uses a word similar to the Serbo-Croatian one, straněc. -Meanwhile, the word is tujec in Slovenian and (as I indicated) stranac in Serbo-Croatian. -So the Russian word has no precise enough copy in other Slavic languages which may make Russian special or less Slavic but the truth is that this can be said about most Slavic languages, too. This word isn’t quite ancient and the Slavic languages did somewhat different things to describe a foreigner. The Russian word would be comprehensible to most Slavs even though ino- may sound as a simple “different, another” to other Slavs. Also, “strana” is identified as a country by many Slavs but those who are unfamiliar with Russian and a few other Slavic languages may think that “strana” is just the “side” or the (political) “party”. These subtle shifts in the meaning of words are common in Slavic langauges - Slavic languages are full of the so-called false friends. Some false friends are not subtle but radical shifts of the meaning (often the opposite meaning!) so be careful. note from ME [I find the Slovenian “tujec” to be the least pan-Slavic word among all the translations prolly ugrofinik or terkic???]

Why Repeat yourself 5 times we only need to hear it once then expand on your Statement!! DON'T WAFFLE !!

There is no thing like Frisian vikings ha ha .I come from Friesland this bulshit.Friesland have bin under atack of vikings there have bin relations but there it stops.

The biggest tragedy of history if only millions of vikings over thousands of years migrated in huge numbers as warriors peasants farmers traders any means possible to south asia and mixed in huge numbers with the nrown skinned oh goodness gracious me thousand apologies people then by now there would be millions of blonde haired blue eyed white skinned volumtious curvy women with pear shaped bum cheeks wow beautiful ❤️ no brown man from south Asian oriogion would ever have left to. come to UK and USA and Europe as they they would have thier own supply of white women