"frisian" is an acceptable word in written English
It is used to describe a person, language, or culture originating from the Netherlands, specifically the province of Friesland. For example, "Holly is of Frisian descent and speaks the Frisian language fluently."
Frisian language, Frisian Frysk, Dutch Fries, the West Germanic language most closely related to English.
Despite the name, this is not Frisian at all but a variety of Dutch strongly influenced by Frisian.
Frisian literature since World War II has largely broken away from the national movement and many traditional conventions, especially through Anne Wadman's leadership as critic, essayist, and novelist.
Most Frisian poetry and fiction now reflects the larger western European community of writers in themes and techniques.
Japicx, however, through his Friesche Rymlerye (1668; "Frisian Verse") and other works proved the richness and versatility of the language and saved it from potential extinction.
In 1915 Douwe Kalma launched the Young Frisian Movement, which challenged younger writers to break radically with the provincialism and didacticism of past Frisian literature.
In its various forms, standard and dialectal, Dutch is the indigenous language of most of the Netherlands (all but the Frisian-speaking province of Friesland), of northern Belgium, and of a small part of France immediately to the west of Belgium.
As a sea-trading people, the Frisians needed portable cash, not the gold and treasure of chiefs and kings, often hoarded and inert.
It made it easy for "Scandinavians to be in York, Frisians in Ipswich, Saxons in London".
While trying to secure his rule over the Frisians, he was killed in battle.
The coastal stretch from the Elbe to the Scheldt rivers, however, was held by the Frisians, on whom the Saxons had great influence.
