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Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...

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...

The fate of tribes and tribe names during the age of the Wandering of Peoples, between the fourth and the sixth centuries, was uncertain....

School instruction plate depicting Count Floris V of Holland when taken prison during falconry in 1296, the year he was murdered, painted...

Katniss Everdeen, a character portrayed by the American actress Jennifer Lawrence, is survivor and victor of The Hunger Games. She comes...

Close to a terp named Fallward near the village of Wremen in the region of Land Wursten, archaeologists discovered a unique site...

Despite the fact that some Frisian forenames still find their way into modern name-giving, like Doutzen, Femke, Hauk, Treintje, Finn,...

Carving runes into combs and stones is basically the same as spraying tags on subway cars and bicycle tunnels. Those who create runes or...

Beauty is the best guarantee for quality and success. At least, this is how farmers in the province of Friesland thought of dairy cattle...

To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...

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...

This is not a blog post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders,...

Haubargs . Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of the peninsula of...

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...

Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...

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...

Who's afraid of Jóða Fenris , ‘the offspring of Fenrir’? Afraid of hund hrynsævar hræva , ‘the hound of the roaring sea corpses’? Who,...

featured image: Vendel helmet, Uppland, Sweden, ca AD 600 Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the...

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...

You'd 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 more...