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  • Frisian Gods

    Before Christianity reached the Frisian coast (a process that took until the 8th century and required considerable violence), the Frisians worshiped the same family of Germanic gods known across Scandinavia, England, and Germany. But the Frisians also had at least one god who was uniquely their own, and their pagan traditions held on longer and…

  • Frisian Cities in England

    Scattered across eastern England, there are towns, villages, and place names that hint at a Frisian presence dating back over a thousand years. The Frisians were part of the great migration of Germanic peoples to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries, and later maintained trading connections with England well into the medieval period. Their…