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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...

For many turbulent centuries, the town of Stavoren was a tightrope walker before it finally settled as a small harbour at the Lake...

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

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,...

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...

Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...

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...

Although the conversion of the Woden-devoted Frisians was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...

When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is written...

Here are some maps that help you locate the Frisians in the early Middle Ages (500-800 AD). We combined old maps, archaeological finds,...

We plotted the exact locations of the whereabouts of the five Frisian kings Finn, Audulfus, Aldgils, Redbad and Poppo. We might have even...

Not much is known about Redbad’s death. Many Frankish fragments use his year of death as a historical point of reference for many events....

“I can not live without the company of my forefathers”, Redbad said in an interview in 718. In 2018 this sentence caused turmoil in the...

In March 714, Redbad's army reached the shores of Cologne. That is deep in the Frankish heartlands and way out of the traditional Frisian...

King Redbad died in 719. Some 1300 years later, as a tribute a movie about this Frisian king will hit the silver screen in the Dutch...