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Hengist and Horsa - Frisian horses from overseas that founded the Kentish Kingdom

Hans Faber

May 1122 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...

The Chronicles of Warnia. When history seems a fantasy story

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....

Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297

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...

The bishop from Frisia who proceeded The Hunger Games

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...

Stavoren. A balancer on a slack rope of religion, trade, land, water, Holland and Frisia

Hans Faber

Jan 739 min read

Stavoren. A balancer on a slack rope of religion, trade, land, water, Holland and Frisia

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

The Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the Marsh

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...

A Dutch king once yelled: “Je suis Frison, et je suis plus têtu que vous!”

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,...

Who's Afraid of Voracious Woolf? - the Dread Beast is Back

Hans Faber

Nov 25, 202227 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,...

A Frisian warlord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him

Hans Faber

Nov 12, 202212 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...

Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera

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...

Like Father, Unlike Son – Un saint frison en France

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...

With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door

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...

Frans Riemersma

Sep 1, 20186 min read

Is Magna Frisia fact or fiction?

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

Follow the footsteps of Five Frisian Kings

Frans Riemersma

Aug 19, 20189 min read

Follow the footsteps of Five Frisian Kings

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

Frans Riemersma

Jun 16, 20184 min read

King Redbad’s last act

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....

Finally, King Redbad made his point in the European Commission - via Facebook

Frans Riemersma

Jun 9, 20186 min read

Finally, King Redbad made his point in the European Commission - via Facebook

“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...

Why was Redbad skinny dipping in eau de Cologne?

Frans Riemersma

Jan 6, 20186 min read

Why was Redbad skinny dipping in eau de Cologne?

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...

Frans Riemersma

Jan 3, 20187 min read

The battles of Redbad, unplugged

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...

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