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A close relationship exists between Old Frisian and Old English; this is due to a shared history, language and culture of the people from Northern Germany and Denmark who came to settle in England from around 400 A.D. onwards.
Frederik Kortlandt. Rebecca Colleran’s dissertation (2016) is an important contribution to our understanding of the earliest relations between Old English and Old Frisian. She points out that “Frisia’s original population deserted Frisia almost entirely in the 4th century A.D.
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Thus, the archaeological and genetic evidence supports the idea that English and Frisian have a common ancestor, appropriately called Anglo-Frisian, that was spoken in the northern part of Germany and spread westwards along the coast in the 5th century.
- Frederik Kortlandt
Old English is more closely linked to Old Frisian than to any other Germanic language. This paper explores if this fact may partly be due to the presence of Frisians in Anglo-Saxon England. It is based on archeology, an analysis of historical sources.
Frisian literature, the literature that is written in West Frisian, a language closely related to Old English, and now spoken primarily by the inhabitants of Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. This part is concluded by a chapter on the ...
The Corpus Oudfries/Old Frisian contains a large sample of the Old Frisian language from ca. 1200-1550, which has been lemmatized and PoS-tagged by Rita van de Poel as part of her PhD research.
