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Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians ( Frisii  or Fresones ) had learned to adapt to this...

Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from mythology. The blacksmith was kept captive on a small island in the sea and escaped from it...

The hearth was, in pre- and early medieval times, the Holy of Holies. The heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove....

According to medieval legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the citizens of Rome. The Pope was...

In the year 516, King Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in, probably, the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the...

Who has not dined at least once in an '80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name 万里长城  ('Great Wall of China')? Certainly, you have...

Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...

In this blog post, we will explain that the Frisian lands might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some...

We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time when the potato was exotic. Nowadays, children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...

In the series Myths of Nations, we disclose to you this time that the Frisians, in fact, didn't come from India, as the old legends tell...

With the upcoming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it is appropriate to serve you a flavourful cocktail. It is a cocktail...

How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.

This blog is a virtual hike. Grab a coffee and go 200 kilometers per hour. When ploughing through piles of research on where the Frisians...

Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...

Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region of Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the...

Here are some maps that help you locate the Frisians in the early Middle Ages (500-800 AD). We combined old maps, archaeological finds,...

We plotted the exact locations of the whereabouts of the five Frisian kings Finn, Audulfus, Aldgils, Redbad and Poppo. We might have even...

This blog post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...

At the time of writing this blog post (2018), many supranational organizations, whether governmental or judicial, are struggling with...

From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from different European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an...