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The Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the Marsh
lighthouse Kleine Preuße 'little Prussian' at the marsh near Wremem, Land Wursten Close to a terp named Fallward near the village of...
Hans Faber
Dec 3, 202314 min read


A Collection of Frisian Forenames of the First Millennium
Despite the fact that some Frisian forenames still find their way into modern name-giving, like Bente, Dirk, Doutzen, Eske, Femke/Famke,...
Hans Faber
Nov 25, 202313 min read


Scratching runes was not much different from spraying tags
Carving runes into combs and stones is basically the same as spraying tags on subway cars and bicycle tunnels. Those who create runes or...
Hans Faber
Nov 12, 202323 min read


Golden Calves, or bursting udders on bony legs?
Beauty is the best guarantee for quality and success. At least, this is how farmers in the province of Friesland thought of dairy cattle...
Hans Faber
Oct 1, 202341 min read

How great was Great Pier? (the sequel II)
To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 28, 20238 min read


When the Gate of Hell opened at the Golden Necklace
When you enter the province of Friesland from the west by car via the Afsluitdijk ('closure dam') and continues on the A7 Hwy, you will...
Hans Faber
Aug 27, 202315 min read


A Dutch king once yelled: “Je suis Frison, et je suis plus têtu que vous!”
In our recent blog post Barbarians riding to the capital to claim rights on farmland , we told the famous story of the two Frisian kings...
Hans Faber
Aug 23, 20238 min read


Barbarians riding to the Capital to claim rights on farmland
This is not a blog post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders,...
Hans Faber
Aug 16, 202317 min read


A Croaking Ode to the Haubarg by the Eiderstedter Nachtigall
Haubargs . Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of the peninsula of...
Hans Faber
Jul 23, 202330 min read


What Killed the Radio Star? The Frisian Claim to Radio Fame
The Second World War. After being given a clear warning by the German Wehrmacht to buzz off, nosy Hanso Idzerda nevertheless returned to...
Hans Faber
Apr 3, 202317 min read

How great was Great Pier? (the sequel)
Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 15, 20235 min read


How great was Great Pier?
Most Frisians know the name of Great Pier, or ‘Grutte Pier’ in Frisian. But what do we really know about him? Well, all we know for sure...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 3, 202320 min read


The many faces of Friesland, that of a bastard included
May 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards . Arie explained to him that his wife...
Hans Faber
Dec 14, 20228 min read


Who's Afraid of Voracious Woolf?—the Dread Beast is Back
Who's afraid of Jóða Fenris , ‘the offspring of Fenrir’? Afraid of hund hrynsævar hræva , ‘the hound of the roaring sea corpses’? Who,...
Hans Faber
Nov 25, 202228 min read

A Frisian warlord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him
Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet is where the ships of the Frisian brothers Corsold and Coarchion roamed, raided, and...
Hans Faber
Nov 12, 202214 min read
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