An investigation at the Vienna National Library has turned up two hitherto unknown fragments of texts in Old Frisian. According to the Fryske Academy, the first fragment is part of a 15th-century ...

I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare ...

The Dutch sport of dyke jumping – or ‘fierljeppen‘ – can trace its roots back to medieval times, when Frisian warriors used their long spears to cross waterways, experts have discovered. A study of ...