In a writing script similar to the most ancient greek, the Frisian book Oera Linda written circa 600 b. c. says that Irtha (“mother earth”) gave birth to three daughters representing the three supposed races of the world, white, black, and yellow, by daughters Frya, Lyda, and Finda respectively, which echoes the number of Noah’s sons in the Bible, the Frisian version though perhaps the first known ancient story about “racism” (there really is only one “race”), because it extolls the virtues of Frya’s progeny while a litany of flaws supposedly characteristic of the progenies of Lyda and Finda.
