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Geake said experts originally believed imitations like this were made by a trading people called the Frisians, but more evidence is coming to light to suggest they were made by the Vikings.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

They picked at the pock-marked townson the invasion coast, ranged east to the Frisians off the Netherlands' coast, where they scratched a convoy and lost five planes.

From Time Magazine Archive

From earliest times the people of Flanders were forced so often to seek refuge with their northern neighbors, the Frisians, that they came at last to be known as Vlaming, the Frisian word for refugee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Turner shoveled most of the time, stopping to watch Mr. Newton’s great Frisians pulling the rollers to pack the snow, their breath steaming out of their nostrils and their heads turning with ease and power.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

And it appears to me therefore that Lappenberg's theory that Franks, Lombards, and Frisians were among the early settlers, is one that deserves most careful consideration.

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert