Editing Frisians (section)

== Frisians in Denmark ==
The earliest traces of Frisians in modern-day Denmark date back from the 8th century, when Frisian traders and craftsmen settled down in [[Ribe]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rasmussen |first=Alan Hjorth |date=1973 |title=Frisiske kulturelementer : en introduktion og foreløbig oversigt |url=https://tidsskrift.dk/folkogkultur/article/view/65647 |journal=Folk og Kultur, årbog for Dansk Etnologi og Folkemindevidenskab |language=da |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=79}}</ref> In the Later Middle Ages, Frisian farmers settled around Tøndermarsken west of [[Tønder]]. The evidence for this are the dwelling mounds or [[terp]]s (''værfter'') in the area that are built after the same method as the ones alongside the [[Wadden Sea]] further south.<ref name="Denmark" >{{cite news |last1=Bech-Danielsen |first1=Anne |title=På jagt efter de sidste frisere i Danmark |url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/art8511170/De-sidste-frisere |access-date=27 May 2022 |agency=[[Politiken]] |date=9 January 2022 |language=da|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Colonists from the south also settled down in [[:dk:Misthusum|Misthusum]] in the Ballum marshes near [[Skærbæk, Tønder Municipality|Skærbæk]] during the 12th of 13th century. According to documents around 1400 at least some of them were considered as "Hollanders".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Knottnerus |first=Otto S. |date=2008|title=De vergeten Friezen: Mislukt pamflet van Benny Siewertsen over een boeiend thema|url=https://www.academia.edu/30042538|journal=De Vrije Fries: Jaarboek uitgegeven door het Koninklijk Fries Genootschap voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur |volume=88|pages=213–215|isbn=978-90-6171-0165|language=nl}}</ref>

In modern times, Frisian culture in Denmark is described as assimilated and most people of Frisian descent do not consider themselves Frisian. In regards of the Frisian language, very few may speak it as first language but it was traditionally spoken in several [[polder]] hamlets near the border with Germany. One estimate puts the Frisian population in Denmark somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000.<ref name="Denmark" /> This number, however, might be grossly exaggerated. Frisian identity in Denmark was promoted by the [[Eiderstedt]] farmer and political activist Cornelius Petersen, who built a traditional Frisian farmstead in [[Møgeltønder]] in 1914 and founded the rural protest movement ''Bondens Selvstyre'' ("Farmers' self-government"). More recently, the retired journalist Benny Siewertsen wrote a partisan pamphlet on Frisian heritage in Denmark.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Benny Siewertsen, ''Friserne – vore glemte forfædre'', Copenhagen 2004/</ref>