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“Ich mag Ihre Pelzer- und Schustertöchter nicht!” – a kiss of death
Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...
Hans Faber
Jul 28, 202410 min read


Hengist and Horsa – Frisian horses from overseas that founded the Kentish Kingdom
It is at the inn The Prancing Pony in the village of Bree that the Hobbits hope to be safe from the screeching Nazgûl on their coal-black...
Hans Faber
May 11, 202423 min read


The Chronicles of Warnia. When history seems a fantasy story
The fate of tribes and tribe names during the age of the Wandering of Peoples, between the fourth and the sixth centuries, was uncertain....
Hans Faber
Feb 18, 202412 min read


Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297
What is the use of celebrating only the battles you have won? Feeling proud and superior as a nation above that of another, and the...
Hans Faber
Feb 4, 202424 min read


The bishop from Frisia who proceeded The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, a character portrayed by the American actress Jennifer Lawrence, is survivor and victor of The Hunger Games. She comes...
Hans Faber
Jan 13, 20247 min read


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, 202322 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


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
After given a clear warning by the German Wehrmacht to buzz off, nosy Hanso Idzerda nevertheless returns to the crash site of a V2 rocket...
Hans Faber
Apr 3, 202316 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


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


Late Little Prayers at the Lorelei Rock. Reckless Rhine Skippers in Distress
On the west bank of the mighty River Rhine, halfway between the cities of Koblenz and Mainz, lies the town of Sankt Goar. Named after...
Hans Faber
Oct 25, 202210 min read


Three books (and a comic) reviewed on Frisia. Is history evidence based?
You would say: “Sure, the study of history is evidence-based and involves no politics. For this, it's called a science, is it not? It's...
Hans Faber
Oct 9, 202216 min read
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