Freswick

Freswick
Freswick
	Remains of Buchollie Castle
	Freswick Location within the Caithness area
OS grid reference	ND3667
Council area	Highland;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
	List of places UK Scotland 58°35′32″N 3°05′12″W / 58.5922°N 3.0866°W

Freswick (/ˈfrɛzɪk/ FREZZ-ik^[1]) or Skirza, is a small remote hamlet, overlooking Freswick Bay to the east, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.^[2] The village of Skirza lies directly northeast of Freswick.

Name

The name Freswick probably originates from the Old Norwegian Frøysvík meaning 'Freyr's bay'. Current Fresvik is a village in Norway. It is also suggested that Freswick stemms from 'Frisians' wick',^[3] similar to the toponyms Vreeswijk and Friezenwijk^[4] in the Netherlands. There is a connection with former Frisia and Freswick concerning early-medieval brooches that have been found. A fragments of Viking-Age fibula, so-called penannular brooch type, found at Freswick by Bremner in 1939 has similarities to a fibula fragment found at the hamlet of Hallumerhoek, province Friesland in the Netherlands.^[5]

References

^ "ekko". Retrieved 31 December 2019.
^ "Freswick". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
^ Chamson, Emil Rudolf (2014). "Revisiting a millennium of migrations. Contextualizing Dutch/Low-German influence on English dialect lexis". Academia.
^ Faber, Hans (2022). "Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil". Frisia Coast Trail. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
^ IJssennagger, Nelleke (2017). Central because Liminal. Frisia in a Viking Age North Sea World. Groningen: Netzodruk. pp. 202–204. ISBN 9789403401973.