{{Short description|Legendary Frisian king}} {{one source|date=March 2024}} {{otheruses4|legendary Frisian king}} thumb '''Friso''' is a legendary king of the Frisians who is said to have ruled around 300 BC. According to Martinus Hamconius in his 17th-century chronicle ''Frisia seu de viris rebusque illustribus'', and also the 19th-century hoax Oera Linda Book, Friso was a leader of a group of Frisian colonists who had been settled in the Punjab for well over a millennium when they were discovered by Alexander the Great. Taking service with Alexander,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yahya |date=2022-05-24 |title=Mythology, Legends and Fairy Tales of Friesland |url=https://maypoleofwisdom.com/2022/05/24/mythology-legends-and-fairy-tale-of-friesland/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=Path to the Maypole of Wisdom |language=nl}}</ref> Friso and the colonists eventually found their way back to their ancestral homeland of Frisia, where Friso founded a dynasty of kings.
Another legend has it that a red banner owned by Friso, called the Magnusvaan, is hidden at the church Almenum.<ref>''Jancko Douwama's Geschriften'', Boeck der Partijen p. 50 and 51, in ''Werken uitgegeven door het Friesch Genootschap van Geschied- Oudheid- en Taalkunde'', Leeuwarden, 1849. digital version: [http://www.wumkes.nl/docs/DouwamaJancko_Geschriften.pdf]{{dead link|date=October 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} p. 126 and 127</ref>
==References==
*Martinus Hamconius: ''[https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/uo/content/structure/1188933 Frisia Sev De Viris Rebvsqve Frisiae Illvstribvs Libri Dvo]'' book image <references/>
Category:Fictional monarchs of Frisia