Hans Faber
The raider’s portrait from Appels
In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
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Hans Faber
Apr 24, 202159 min read
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who's responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans Faber
Apr 5, 202142 min read
Yet Another Wayward Archipelago
The peoples of islands and archipelagos don't let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
Mar 21, 202113 min read
With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door
Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...
Hans Faber
Feb 10, 202134 min read
History is written by the victors – a story of the credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, Big Apple, Empire City, and Baghdad-on-the-Subway. With...
Hans Faber
Jan 4, 20215 min read
Expelled from Regal Grounds
July 1987. The two Frisian bastards , both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in the...
Hans Faber
Oct 29, 20207 min read
Grassland Conversation
Being at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also the note...
Hans Faber
Feb 23, 202014 min read
A Theel Acht. What a great idea!
Halfway through the ninth century, Vikings had established a more or less permanent presence in Frisia, in the pagus 'territory' called...
Hans Faber
Feb 11, 202020 min read
Donkey King of the Paulme Game
Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus , ‘an illiterate king is like a crowned donkey’. Or, if you prefer the alternative...
Hans Faber
Dec 1, 20198 min read
Shipwrecked People of the Salt Marshes
Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians ( Frisii or Fresones ) had learned to adapt to this...
Hans Faber
Oct 6, 20197 min read
Gerddwyr Croeso. Hiking the Welsh Coast
Last year one of the bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwestern Wales ( Cymru ), a 290 kilometres long trail. As every...
Hans Faber
May 12, 201926 min read
The United Frisian Emirates and Black Peat
In this blog post, we'll explain that the Frisian lands might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some...
Hans Faber
Dec 24, 201828 min read
Have a Frisians Cocktail
With the upcoming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it's appropriate to serve you a flavourful cocktail. It's a cocktail from...
Hans Faber
Nov 11, 201815 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
Oct 12, 20189 min read
Support for the Corsican Cause in jeopardy
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
Jun 1, 201818 min read
Haute couture from the salt marshes
It was not the city of Parisius. Nor that of Lundenwic. Believe or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chique clothing...
Hans Faber
May 13, 20189 min read
Bil. A wasteland of non-integrated migrants?
This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middle Sea was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...
Hans Faber
Oct 7, 20177 min read
Leeuwarden, European Capital of Exiled Governments
In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separation going through Europe and the world...
Hans Faber
Sep 17, 20173 min read
Escher's homeland 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...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 24, 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...
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