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A terp for Choquequirao
Why in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...
Hans Faber
Oct 29, 20176 min read


Medieval Migration Law. A Matter of Liability
Hwasa thene vthemeda husath ieftha howath ieftha oppa sinne werf set, sa skel hi thes wachtia, hwetsa hi deth. Who receives a foreigner...
Hans Faber
Oct 8, 201711 min read

Leeuwarden, European Capital of Exiled Governments
In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separations going through Europe and the world in...
Hans Faber
Oct 7, 20177 min read


PRESS STATEMENT: Consensus on Tribunal for Frisia
It is a well known fact the Frisians fought in foreign armies. Whether as foreign fighter in the Mediterranean and the Levant, or as...
Hans Faber
Sep 30, 201713 min read


Walcheren Island. Once Sodom and Gomorrah of the North Sea
In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries the island of Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with...
Hans Faber
Sep 24, 201729 min read


Escher's home-land of confusion
"Dude, take a deep sigh and look at the landscape of the picture below. Don’t panic. You're not alone and the world isn't empty. Slowly...
Hans Faber
Sep 17, 20173 min read


Clinton: "I did not have financial relations with that village"
On May 28, 2011 Bill Clinton held a speech in Achlum. The village has some 600 inhabitants. Looks like a small audience to me. What was...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 24, 20173 min read


Celtic-Frisian heritage—there is no dealing with Wheels of Fortune
Exactly a year ago Hans van der Togt, a former Dutch television presenter of the game show Wheel of Fortune, told in the talk show Pauw abou
Hans Faber
Aug 22, 20178 min read


Frisian women: free and unbound?
Below the green and black image of Saskia Holleman, the reincarnation of Mata Hari, her fellow citizen. Saskia was born in 1945 in the...
Hans Faber
Aug 7, 201724 min read


Tolkien pleaded in favour of King Finn. A royal murder immortalized
King Finn (r) and Hengest (l) Around the year 440 (Shippey 2022), a betrayal took place on the southern shores of the North Sea. It was a...
Hans Faber
Jul 2, 201745 min read


Boots made for walkin’
Besides Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 recommendation in her song ; what kind of boots would we recommend to hike the Frisia Coast Trail? The...
Hans Faber
Jun 1, 20175 min read


"My God, the Germans bought all the bread!" cried Moira
The essence of the Frisia Coast Trail is hiking through the heartland of (former) Frisia and to taste the landscape, its history, its...
Hans Faber
May 17, 201711 min read


How a town drowned overnight. The case of Rungholt
Rungholt. A thriving and wealthy town that disappeared overnight in the year 1362. For six centuries only legends told us about what...
Hans Faber
May 7, 201717 min read


Lodging etiquette in Ostfriesland. The first legally blondes
You are hiking the Frisia Coast Trail in the northwest of Germany, and after a long day looking for a place to stay, you can try your...
Hans Faber
May 4, 20177 min read


Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden Sea. The Era of the Crusades
When it comes to the deradicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Frisians – in this context, the modern regions of Ostfriesland and...
Hans Faber
May 1, 201725 min read
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