I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare ...

Independent Frisians. Mediaeval Frisia, ca. 1200–1500, ... This insight can cultivate an appreciation of honour societies, which are no longer understood by modern Westerners, ...

How the modern world arose from the North Sea. Try for free. Enterprise. Log in Menu. ... As a sea-trading people, the Frisians needed portable cash, not the gold and treasure of chiefs and kings ...

The dialect is believed to be the closest living relative to modern English. ... so similar in fact that 1,000 years ago the English and Frisians could understand each other, ...

The style of 5th Century Kentish pottery and brooches suggests that the immigrants came from different peoples of the North Sea coast, including Frisians, Angles, Saxons, Franks and Scandinavians ...

Many East Frisians also drink tea before they go to bed. So tea time is, easily, about four or five times a day." There is tea in the morning, there is tea in the afternoon.