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The United Frisian Emirates and Black Peat. How Holland became Dutch
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...
Hans Faber
May 12, 201928 min read


Hero of Haarlem, or dragon in disguise? Rethinking sea-level rise strategies
It was a Yankee by the name of Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
Mar 10, 201914 min read


Know where to find your sweet potato. The cradle of home nursing, too
We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time when the potato was exotic. Nowadays, children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...
Hans Faber
Jan 20, 20199 min read


We'll drive our ships to new land
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...
Hans Faber
Jan 13, 201913 min read


Have a Frisians Cocktail! A rich composition
With the upcoming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it is appropriate to serve you a flavourful cocktail. It is a cocktail...
Hans Faber
Dec 24, 201830 min read

You killed a man? That'll be 1 weregeld, please
How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.
Hans Faber
Nov 11, 201817 min read


Take a virtual hike through Zuid-Holland and Utrecht
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...
Frans Riemersma
Nov 3, 20183 min read


Liudger, the first Frisian apostle
Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...
Frans Riemersma
Oct 27, 20188 min read


Burn Beacons Burn. A Coastal Inferno—Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region of Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the...
Hans Faber
Oct 14, 201813 min read


Support for the Corsican Cause in jeopardy—hiking the GR20
September 2018, one of the bastards hiked the Grande Randonnée 20 in Corsica. Or, as the French say, la GR-vingt . The GR20 is...
Hans Faber
Oct 12, 20189 min read

Is Magna Frisia fact or fiction?
Here are some maps that help you locate the Frisians in the early Middle Ages (500-800 AD). We combined old maps, archaeological finds,...
Frans Riemersma
Sep 1, 20186 min read


Follow the footsteps of Five Frisian Kings
We plotted the exact locations of the whereabouts of the five Frisian kings Finn, Audulfus, Aldgils, Redbad and Poppo. We might have even...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 19, 20189 min read


One of history’s most enlightening hikes. That of Bernlef and Ludger
This blog post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...
Hans Faber
Jul 1, 201836 min read


The Treaty of the Upstalsboom. Why solidarity is not the core of a collective
At the time of writing this blog post (2018), many supranational organizations, whether governmental or judicial, are struggling with...
Hans Faber
Jun 24, 201828 min read


Foreign Fighters returning from Viking warbands
From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from different European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an...
Hans Faber
Jun 20, 201823 min read
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