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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 4725603, member: 100731&quot;]yes, it is. There is very little Frisian written history before the Frankish conquest in c. 750 AD. The Franks were not very positive about the Frisians (though them as warriors), and the Frisian culture from a Frankish point of view was very unchristian, so little was written down and lost to history. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the porcupine: a (in my opinion) valid hypothesis is that a hoard of Celtic coins was found in c. 600&#039;s, and inspired the mint of the coinage of the dark ages for a while (in the period after the fall of the Roman empire to the coinage reform of the Franks in c. 750 with the introduction of the denar/penny). </p><p>Some sceats were also likely inspired by the Roman coinage, see e.g. this series A (or C?) sceat from Kent:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1157463[/ATTACH]</p><p>from the Metcalf &amp; Opdenvelde source in my <b>editted post</b> above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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