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Old Frisian
Old Frisian was the West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries by the people who, from their ancient homes in North Germany and Denmark, had settled in the area between the Rhine and Elbe on the European North Sea coast in the 4th and 5th centuries. The language of the earlier inhabitants of the region (the Frisians famously mentioned by Tacitus) is not attested.
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