To be honest I am a little confused. There where once the Scythians, riding their horses through the steppe between Mongolia and Hungary. As they say, the Saxons are Scythians, so it seems Fryas people as a whole came from the Scythians? They did find mummies with blonde hair until China. But the Scythians are said to be originally from Persia. Guess what, I have read the same about the Canaanites (Phoenicians/Jews) being originally from Persia.
Both the ancient Fryans and Phoenicians (I am starting to see the Phoenicians more and more as an offshoot of Frya's people, so it is becoming difficult to mark a line between them. Minno vs Hanno, the mysterious sea peoples were the Fryans and their bastard offshoot from the Levant combined?) were exploring the world by sea, but what about the land?
Interesting that those Scythians ruled basically the same strip of land from Europe to eastern Asia, where the silk road formed.. It's no secret that the Jews were the merchant kings of that road, and they used Jiddish, a language most close to German, but also with Iranian influence.. I bet the Scythians/Saxons could understand it, so maybe it was not a secret language for trade benefits, as is commonly assumed.
For me it is no coïncidence anymore that the first Jewish settlements in Germany were along the Rhine, the old Frya's land. There is a very strong connection between the peoples of the low countries ('Canaan' can be translated as 'Netherlands', lol).
The Silk Road, a joint venture of Fryans and Phoenicians with Jiddish as a lingua franca?
Re: The Silk Road, a joint venture of Fryans and Phoenicians with Jiddish as a lingua franca?
The Scythians are more recent in history than the Fryas. Even the Cimmerians are more recent. By about a millennia.
Brea, bûter en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk
Re: The Silk Road, a joint venture of Fryans and Phoenicians with Jiddish as a lingua franca?
The Fryas may have existed as an (ever-shrinking) group (or several such groups) until shortly before the so-called Renaissance. And even then, they may still have been persecuted as heretics (ketters?).
On what do you base your position?
(F.y.i.: Millennia is plural of -um.)
When you let go of the idea that our pre-15th C. timeline and the Aldland datings in OL are corrent (to our standards), it's becomes easier to reconstruct a more plausible chronolgy.