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According to Pliny the Younger, in Roman times, the Frisians (or, as it may be, their close neighbours, the Chauci) lived on terps, man-made hills. According to other sources, the Frisians lived along a broader expanse of the North Sea (or "Frisian Sea") coast. Frisia at this time comprised the present-day provinces of Friesland and North Holland.
Though it is impossible to know exact numbers and migration patterns, research has indicated that many Frisians were part of the wave of ethnic groups to colonise areas of present-day England alongside the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, [24] starting from around the fifth century when Frisians arrived along the coastline of Kent. [25] [26]
It was written more than 500 years after the last unambiguous reference to the ancient Frisii (the Panegyrici Latini in c. 297), and at a time when medieval Frisia and the Frisians were playing a dominant role in North Sea trade. The idea that the Frisians might have settled in Scotland and Ireland has triggered several imaginative histories.
Archeological discoveries during the early 20th century refuted the long held belief that the Frisii were the ancestors of the medieval and modern Frisians by comparing pottery styles, brooches and burial practices before and after the population decline of the 5th century in the regions of Groningen, Friesland, Holland and Zeeland.
The earliest Frisian records name four social classes, the ethelings (nobiles in Latin documents) and frilings, who together made up the "Free Frisians" who might bring suit at court, and the laten or liten with the slaves, who were absorbed into the laten during the Early Middle Ages, as slavery was not so much formally abolished, as evaporated.
The remains of buildings were found at L'Anse aux Meadows in 1960 dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. [1] [2] [3] This discovery helped reignite archaeological exploration for the Norse in the North Atlantic. [4] This single settlement, located on the island of Newfoundland and not on the North American mainland, was abruptly abandoned.
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The earliest Frisian records name four social classes, the ethelings (nobiles in Latin documents) and frilings, who together made up the "Free Frisians" who might bring suit at court, and the laten or liten with the slaves, who were absorbed into the laten during the Early Middle Ages, as slavery was not so much formally abolished, as evaporated.