top of page

Search


The Friesenwall. An unfinished last-ditch coastal defence system
On 28 August 1944, a desperate Hitler ordered the construction of a huge defensive wall in the north of Germany, running all the way...
Hans Faber
May 44 min read


Was it the proverbial two captains on the same boat that made the Frisians free?
The much-celebrated Frisian Freedom is the period between more or less 1250 and 1500, a time when the Frisian terrae ‘lands’, with...
Hans Faber
Mar 305 min read


The Waugal, protector of fresh water and new life—hiking the Bibbulmun Track
The last two weeks of December 2024, one of the bastards of the Frisian Coast Trail solo hiked the coastal section of the Bibbulmun...
Hans Faber
Mar 2910 min read


The Old Man (and Woman) and the Sea—hiking the Lycian Way
April 2024. One of the bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail hiked part of the Lycian Way, or, in the Turkish language, Likya Yolu . It’s a...
Hans Faber
Jan 256 min read


Comb as you are, as you were
Theories exist that the tribe’s name of the Frisians comes from the Old Frisian word frisle meaning ‘lock of hair’, a word, in turn,...
Hans Faber
Nov 10, 20246 min read


Between Leffinge and Misthusum—understanding the basics of terps
Manmade hills to dwell on. Often considered typical Frisian, but they are not. Only think of the Kincaid Mounds of the Mississippian...
Hans Faber
Sep 29, 202420 min read


“Ich mag Ihre Pelzer- und Schustertöchter nicht!”—a kiss of death
Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...
Hans Faber
Jul 28, 202410 min read


Odin’s Ravens ruled over the southern shores. Not the Hammer of Thor
When re-enactors bring to life early-medieval Frisia, you regularly see them wearing a little iron hammer on a leather cord around their...
Hans Faber
Jun 9, 202421 min read


Hengist and Horsa—Frisian horses from overseas that founded the Kentish Kingdom
It is at the inn The Prancing Pony in the village of Bree that the Hobbits hope to be safe from the screeching Nazgûl on their coal-black...
Hans Faber
May 11, 202423 min read
bottom of page