Hans Faber
“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...
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Hans Faber
May 1121 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
Feb 1812 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 423 min read
Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297
What's 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
Jan 137 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
Dec 3, 202313 min read
The Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the Marsh
Close to a terp named Fallward near the village of Wremen in the region of Land Wursten, archaeologists discovered a unique site...
Hans Faber
Nov 25, 202313 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 Doutzen, Femke, Hauk, Treintje, Finn,...
Hans Faber
Nov 12, 202322 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
Oct 1, 202340 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...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 28, 20238 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)...
Hans Faber
Aug 23, 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 16, 202317 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
Jul 23, 202330 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
Apr 3, 202316 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...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 15, 20235 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 3, 202320 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...
Hans Faber
Nov 25, 202227 min read
Who's Afraid of Voracious Woolf? - the 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 12, 202211 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
Oct 25, 20227 min read
Late Little Prayers at the Lorelei Rock
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 9, 202214 min read
Three books (and a comic) reviewed on Frisia: Is history evidence based?
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...
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