German Drang nach Norden in Schleswig-Holstein

How is that relevant at all?

Flying Pig said:

Only if you ignore the islands in the middle, in which the two exist side-by-side, some of which are more English and French than others. So even that's not so simple. It also brings in one rather large factor totally absent in this question.

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On the topic of English and French, the Ottawa river valley of Quebec/Ontario is a fairly good example of a French-English transition zone, as are most of Quebec's border regions where you'll find one side with communities that are still 70, 80% + franco (Hearst, Cochrate, Casselman in Ontario, Madawaska, Van Buren and Frenchville (suitably enough....) in Maine, and likewise 70-80% anglophone communities on the Quebec side..

(also interesting in that it has been a very fluid border zone, shifting more toward the Quebec side of the river or the Ontario side as political and social consierations changed)

Btw, here is a trailer of the Tv series about the 1864 war. When Denmark lost Slesvig to Germany and Austria:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4D7C49vjI

Domen said:

I counted them together because they lived / live in the same region and are both non-Germans.

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The Frisians are most definitely Germans AND Germanic, though of a distinct group. Due to their habitat they just kept their cultural identity better then most (if not all) other groups, like the Saxons, Franks, Bavarians, etc. When Tacitus described the Germans, he stated that the Frisians settle on the coast, and nowadays - 2000 years later - they are still here, with their own distinct language and cultural quirks. I currently live in Norden, as Frisian as cities come, though I am not a Frisian myself.

The Northern Frisians settled their areas a good deal after Tacitus, an area that became known as Uthlande (outland). The Danish king tried to collect its toll there but was repulsed (not unlike Feudal lords in other Frisian areas), and the area made independent treaties with other areas or trade leagues for some time.

Here is a map of their areas of settlement around 1250 and 1650 - note that the main difference is the coastline:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/JBAM_068.JPG

The North Frisians are still a distinct group in Germany, though you will find that they are not so in Denmark, ie they were either assimilated or moved south of the border after WW1 (though there is sitll a markable minority of "Germans" left in Denmark, as there are Danish in Germany.

Anyway, the main point is that it certainly is wrong to lump Frisians and Danish together in a map of languages or population groups. The political situation in Schleswig and Holstein was, well, complex. The area was never in the focus of the Empire, so the Danish king and local Dukes wrangeled it until it became a pretty complex mess of obligations and loyalities. Before 1864 first the Danish and then the German league oversimplified the issue to their own advantage (guess who won), resulting in the border a bit too pro-German that was then shifted perhaps a tiny bit too pro-Danish after WW1, but overall it never was a serious issue again - not even after WW2 were any amendments made.