frisians
appearance: c. 100
dispersal: c.
ascendancy: west germans[1]
the original (non-german) frisians must have been a late neolithic holdout like the picts and the name frisian itself is probably that of the ancient inhabitants and not the german pre-dutch invaders who eventually took over. i say this because frisia seems to derive from freyja and freyja could not have been an indo-european deity.
[1]: the role of migration in the history of the eurasian steppe, andrew bell-fialkoff, 2000
[2]: heimskringla, snorri sturlson, c. 1200
[3]: the germanic invasions, lucien musset, 1965
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