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common among several European peoples. The Frisian version may have been adapted from Saxon sources and show similarities to the Anglo-Saxon origin myth as well. Although the Gesta offers one example of the origin myth, there are other versions, though all agree that there were three foundational people or groups who sailed over the sea from an island home to their new European homeland. The true origin of the Seven Sealands is unknown but the concept was extremely widespread during the 15th century.

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