How quickly history can be falsified seems to be proven with the discovery of the island of Frisland on old maps that just appear to be in international libraries. Have you ever wondered how it is possible that there is such a small stubborn people living in the north of Holland who speak a language totally different from Dutch and very close to English? In England there is a saying that goes "Frisian is to English like butter is to cheese"; translated "Frisian is to English as butteristo cheese. The great discovery handed to me in June 2014 is that south of Greenland (below Iceland) until the year 1680, there was an island drawn on maps larger than Iceland and inhabited by a seafaring people. The island would have been densely populated and had an estimated population of 500 thousand to 1 million. That's quite a lot for that time. It is suspected that the island sunk at some point due to a seaquake, for example.
The exact cause of the disappearance of the island of Frisland is, of course, conjecture. However, some history books do indicate that the Frisian people first tried to settle in England and then made their way to the North of the Netherlands. Now we all know that the Frisians killed Boniface around the year 754. So that would mean that the Frisians also settled outside their own island. So chances are they had seized the northern part of the Netherlands and traded from there.
Another part of history that comes into a whole new light with the discovery of this island is the story of the discovery of America. The ancient native Indians of the Americas are said to have spoken of a Scandinavian people who visited the continent before Columbus did. The American natives are said to have spoken of "redbeard. This explains a lot, because the Frisian king was called Redbad; better known by the name Radboud. Redbad is a corruption of "red beard. According to Wikipedia, nothing is known about Radboud's youth and young years. Surely it seems that the history of the Frisians was therefore deliberately glossed over. Although later chronicles claim that he was a son of Aldgisl, there is no evidence for this in the source material from that time. He undoubtedly grew up in a family that belonged to the Frisian elite and did not come to power until about 680, after the death of Aldgisl.
Furthermore, Wikipedia states [quote] Radbod is seen as a powerful ruler, but the beginning of his reign was disappointing. He repeatedly came into conflict with the Frankish Empire and had to settle for a subordinate role compared to his powerful neighbor. Between 688 and 695, he suffered a number of defeats against the Frankish suzerain Pepin of Herstal, including in the battle of Dorestad. In the mid-1990s, Radbod and Pepin made peace, with Radbod relinquishing Fresia citerior, the territory south of the Old Rhine. Part of this peace included the marriage of Radboud's daughter Theudesinda to Grimoald, a son of Pepin of Herstal, who was murdered in 714. It is not known of this marriage whether any children were born of it.
In any case, it is remarkable that this small nation from the north of the Netherlands had kings. One might wonder where these kings lived then? We see no palaces of this nobility anywhere in today's northern province. Would the explanation then lie in the disappearance of the island of Frisland? Was that the base of operations of this people? It seems that Winston Churchill's rule has already been applied here: "History is written by the victor. The only question is whether this victory by the Frankish empire had to do with actual supremacy or whether this victory could be achieved simply because the island of Frisland was wiped off the face of the earth by a natural disaster. Possibly the Frankish empire then took its chance and annexed the Frisian-dominated part of northern Holland. That's probably where history has changed and the Frisians have to make do with the totally incoherent story as you read here on Wikipedia. Perhaps it is time for the Frisians to rediscover their true roots.
In an essay found under this link (titled "Friesland: The land that time forgot"), the writer reports that the English tried to stake a claim to the island of Frisland, but that this was unjustified.
The island of Friesland (the more common spelling), plus Estotiland first came to public attention in 1558 when a certain Caterino Zeno published a map with accompanying story in Venice. He described a journey to the far north made in 1380 (an error, the actual year was 1390) by an ancestor of his named Nicolo Zeno. This earlier Zeno was forced by a storm to go ashore on the island of Friesland. The accompanying map shows a roughly rectangular shaped island with the longer axis from north to south. It is slightly smaller overall but wider than Iceland and is located approximately where the Rockall Plateau is now located. The ruler of Friesland in 1380 (ie 1390) was named Zichmni. He befriended Nicolo out of admiration for the skill of Venetian sailors. This new friendship enabled Zichmni to expand his power over many neighboring islands. In return, Nicolo was knighted. Nicolo wrote to his brother Antonio in Venice. The latter came to Frisia and joined. Both lived in Friesland until 1384 (probably, in fact, 1396), when Nicolo died. Antonio then remained in Zichmni's service for another ten years. In 1394 (correct 1406) Antonio returned to Venice, where he told his story to his third brother, Carlo.
The Zeno Map shows a smaller island to the northwest of Friesland called Icaria, and further west thus the Estotiland. Estotiland is only partially shown. In Dr. Dee's era, this island was called Nova Scotia. To the south, another partial coastline is shown named Drogio. This is probably what we now know as Massachusetts Bay. Dr. Dee's Greenland is not on the map and appears to be Baffin Island on this map (given its position). To the east of Friesland are the familiar coasts of Norway, Denmark, Scotland and the Shetlands (labeled Estonia). Between the latter two is another small island called Podanda. It should be mentioned that it is unlikely that Europeans made a voyage to Nova Scotia and Massachusetts prior to Columbus. This is not mentioned anywhere. We do know that the Vikings came very close and built a settlement on Newfoundland around the year 1000. Some researchers strongly suspect that northern sailors made this journey regularly, with Bristol as their main port of departure. The real mystery of the Zeno map, of course, is: what was Friesland and where did it go? Beginning in the sixteenth century, Friesland began to appear as a ghost on all published maps. Its location was always south of Iceland, but no one ever quite knew where. Speculation arose as to whether it had been partially submerged since 1380 (correctly 1390).
In 1578, a much smaller island was spotted at the suspected location of Friesland. On Sept. 12 in that year, Richard Newton, captain of the Emmanuel (one of fifteen ships in an expedition led by Sir Martin Frobisher) made an expedition in which this island was found. He named it Buss Island, after the type of ship he was sailing. In his journal he wrote: The Busse, of Bridgewater, as she came homeward, to ye South Eastwarde of Freseland, discoured a great Ilande in the latitude of _ Degree, which was never yet founde before, and saidled three dayes alongst the coast, the land seeming to be fruiteful, full of woods, and a champion countrie.
Eleven years later, Thomas Wiars described this Buss Island as an island surrounded by a large ice field. This contradicts earlier description of the island. Then suddenly, on July 1, 1606, Buss Island was spotted by James Hall. This described its location more westward than previously supposed. Still, despite several attempts to find it, Buss Island remained elusive until 1671, when Captain John Shepherd not only sighted it, but explored it. He described it as being abundant in fish, but otherwise barren and low-lying.
On May 13, 1675, King Charles II granted ownership of Buss Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, which had been established in 1670 to exploit the mineral, trade, and fishing rights of the various northern territories (it still exists as a Canadian corporation). Apparently, Charles felt he had the right to do so by inheritance from King Arthur, who had reportedly conquered the northern lands a thousand years earlier. Although it should also be noted that the Scottish Crown had claimed supremacy over these northern waters since 1476. Charles II, of course, was the king of England and Scotland. The Hudson's Bay Company paid the king £65 for the island. In 1676, however, they failed to find it. In 1720, £378,000 government funding was requested for an exploration expedition. This request was soon rejected. But in 1770, there were those who accused the company of keeping the true location of Buss Island a secret in order to maintain financial control over the trade. So in 1791, the company announced that as far as they were concerned, "no such island exists" (not now above water if it was ever there). In 1934, the company stated that it was a "mythical island in the North Atlantic.
Together, these various accounts of Friesland and Buss Island offer a coherent story. By 1380 (correctly 1390), Friesland was large enough to have cities and agriculture and to have a ruler named Zichmni who was powerful enough to conquer neighboring islands. By 1578, it had shrunk to a much smaller island, though still fertile and forested. In 1589 (just eleven years later) it was surrounded by a large ice field and by 1671 it was barren and low-lying. It was never seen again. Many explorers came to the obvious conclusion that it had gradually disappeared into the sea. Perhaps a small dot is still visible that survived as Rockall. Rockall was annexed by the United Kingdom in 1972. It is the ultimate "remote Scottish island," west of Scotland and east of Norway. Only a few meters in diameter, it is completely uninhabitable.
The Zeno Card:
Source link entries: Wikipedia, Wikipedia, historum.com
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Also not to be forgotten: The Frisians in Germany and Denmark. Clearly, there was a people who pretty much blew in on the beaches east of where they were and set foot on land there....
All contemporary history is a lie, as long as humanity is kept away from the truth it will not discover the essence of life. They describe the Middle Ages as the "dark ages," but those dark ages never ceased to exist.
The many wars on this earth are directed against the truth, the light so that the lie can be made bigger and consolidated by the victor (see Churchill quote). Therefore, we have lost the origins of the many peoples and their associated cultures, languages, architectural wonders over time.
Those interested in the origin and (mathematical) knowledge of the monolithic structures on this earth I recommend the following docu by Carl Munck:
"The Code" part 1 of 3 | The Matrix Revealed
As the whole of Europe is slowly falling apart, the momentum is there to start thinking about an autonomous region à la Basque Country/Catalonia. The Frisian state, Frisia:
Old English is a language closely related to Old Frisian, both forming part of the West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages, a sub-group of the Indo-European language family.
The Proto-Indo-Europeans were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). Knowledge of them comes chiefly from linguistic reconstruction. According to some archaeologists, PIE speakers cannot be assumed to have been a single, identifiable people or tribe, but were a group of loosely related populations ancestral to the later, still partially prehistoric, Bronze Age Indo-Europeans. However, this view is not shared by linguists, as proto-languages generally occupy small geographical areas over a very limited time span, and are generally spoken by close-knit communities such as a single small tribe.
The following changes are known or presumed to have occurred in the history of Proto-Germanic in the wider sense from the end of Proto-Indo-European up to the point that Proto-Germanic began to break into mutually unintelligible dialects.
A good account of the tribes/clans
This article is quite startling for me personally, indeed I never knew it. I myself come from Friesland from both sides, and even though both sides of the family have lived in the southeast of the Netherlands since 1920, it is still strange that even with the Elfstedentocht I sit on the edge of my seat all day and hope every year that it continues. There is more in people's genes than you think. Nice article Martin, thanks !