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He shows that Old English, the ancestor of Modern English, isn’t an Anglo-Saxon language at all; he shows that it has its roots in Old Frisian. Finally, he postulates that this would mean that the Old Frisian/English language was already being spoken in England over 2100 years ago. This is The Frisian Enigma.
Oud Fries 2100 jaar geleden. Hmm, maar eens zien hoe de auteur dat opbouwt:
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Gerald Capon
We have seen in Chapter I how the Teutonic tribes spread down in the
first millennium BC from Scandinavia, the people that settled in the
area along the North Sea coast between roughly the modern
German/Danish frontier and the Rhine delta became known as the
Frisians. I believe it’s worth reprinting here a framework of Frisian
history I found on the web, which I believe is pretty correct
OK, dat is duidelijk. De man heeft een boek vanuit zijn onderbuik geschreven op grond van wat verdwaalde webpagina's.
Het is droevig dat zoiets op Academia terecht komt.
