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Hans Faber
Sep 30, 202229 min read
Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera
Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...
Hans Faber
May 28, 202211 min read
Joan of Arc an inspiration for Land Wursten
In the year 1500, a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in the region of Land Wursten on the eastern...
Hans Faber
May 7, 202214 min read
To the end where it all began: ribbon Ribe in Jutland
Let's go to the omega. To the end of the Frisia Coast Trail . To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town in Scandinavia. A...
Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20228 min read
Dissolute Elisabeth and Her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans Faber
Apr 10, 202215 min read
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This blog post isn't about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish...
Hans Faber
Mar 20, 202276 min read
Harbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in Masquerade
Dockyards, quays, terminals, warehouses, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons. Craftsmen, shipping companies, customs, pilotage...
Hans Faber
Dec 10, 202115 min read
Pagare il fio
Pagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means ‘paying the fee’. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans Faber
Oct 31, 202110 min read
♫ They want you as a new recruit ♫
'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...
Hans Faber
Sep 10, 202113 min read
Like Father, Unlike Son – Un saint frison en France
The Battle of Tours in 732 was a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the biggest empires in...
Hans Faber
Sep 5, 202138 min read
Well, the Thing is ...
The heart of Western democracies is the joint assembly of Parliament, Cabinet, and High Councils of State. Its Celtic-Germanic origin is...
Hans Faber
Aug 9, 202151 min read
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under the supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, the customary...
Hans Faber
Jul 31, 20216 min read
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...
Hans & Frans
Jul 10, 20218 min read
Wa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?
“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
Hans Faber
Apr 24, 202160 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, 202143 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 of the Woden-devoted Frisians was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...
Hans Faber
Feb 21, 20219 min read
Frisia, a Viking graveyard
When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is written...
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
Nov 15, 202014 min read
Rowing souls of the dead to Britain: the ferryman of Solleveld
In 2004, a unique discovery was made at the early-medieval grave field of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave....
Hans Faber
Sep 5, 202012 min read
Women of Anjum, or One Night in Anjum
Late in the afternoon. December 28, 2018. One of the Frisian bastards arrives at the village of Anjum after a hike that started in...
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