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people forget that english was also influenced by old norse from the Danish settlers in what is now East Anglia and Northcumbria. They did impact the English language by the time of the arrival of the Normans. English changed in the 1500s-1600s when a more standardized language was created......read shakespeare's writings and compare them to various other writings prior 100 years....the language looks very different and the various dialects people had or used different grammar....but then again most people were uneducated and could not write.
Shakespeare's English had more of an impact on what we speak today than what the Anglo-Normans spoke of the 13th century or the Anglo-Saxon-Danes before them.
Here is the lords prayer in Anglo-Saxon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVyol7N1Jo&hd=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMrV...6E5243558&hd=1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJr8uZPNm4Y&hd=1
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It is very possible that Batavians could have had some status and prestige among Germanic peoples in the region for their role inside the Roman military.
Interesting is their rebellion, for sure some where exiled or left voluntarily after it, they could have moved with the Frisians and Saxons or even in Scandinavia.
"If the enemy is not attacking from the East it has flanked." Finnish proverb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu8D9GaQwIs
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I mean the Romans wouldn't have distinguished between a boatload of Frisians and a boatload of Saxons. Look at the maps from this period, Frisians covered most of the coast from Flanders to Holstein while Saxons were more inland. The Saxons main expansion on the continent was in the middle ages(starting from 900s) when they advanced eastwards at the cost of west slavs.
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then who invaded the British Islands? If some of my ancestors were not the people of the sword then I feel bad But I always thought the saxons were a specific tribe...now they did make an expansion into what is now England....I mean why would that be made up if it didnt happen? Or why would some group of germanics invade there and claim they were Saxons....even the Irish word for Saxon today is used to call English people....so they had to have invaded the British Islands. However I tend to think the Danes genetically may have had a much larger impact on England than Saxons [who most likely were the Kings and minor rulers of the time]. I mean England had a double dosage of genes from Denmark.
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The Russian Tsar Peter the Great came to Holland to learn how to build boats in Zaandam where he also had the first wooden house build named the ''Tsaar Petershuisje'' and he stayed there for a while in the summer of 1697. He knew the Dutch were the best boatbuilders and he wanted to gain knowledge from the industry as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_Pe..._(Netherlands)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaan#The_Zaan_district
There is a saying that the industrial revolution began in Zaandam and nowhere in Europe you could find such a high density of industrial mills. Also whaling was a profession practiced by almost every village in Zaandam.
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