Jan van Aken is a writer belonging to which Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands?
Dutch people The Dutch (Dutch:    ), occasionally referred to as Netherlanders—a term that is cognate to the Dutch word for Dutch people, "Nederlanders"—are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Aruba, Suriname, Guyana, Curaçao, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United States.
Vestmenn Vestmenn ("Westmen" in English) was the Old Norse word for the Gaels of Ireland and Britain, especially Ireland. Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland and Vestmanna in the Faroe Islands take their names from it. The Norse who settled in Ireland and Scotland, known now as the "Norse–Gaels", called themselves "Austmenn" "Eastmen", i.e. people who had come from the East (Scandinavia).