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image by Denyse O'Leary When re-enactors bring to life early-medieval Frisia, you regularly see them wearing a little iron hammer on a...

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

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

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...

Dockyards, quays, terminals, warehouses, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons. Craftsmen, shipping companies, customs, pilotage...

Hiking requires careful preparation, including personal safety. What do you put in your First Aid Kit? Do you possess basic first aid...

'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...

The heart of Western democracies is the joint assembly of Parliament, Cabinet, and High Councils of State. Its Celtic-Germanic origin is...

At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under the supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, the customary...

figurehead of Appels (Flanders) In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of...

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...

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....

photo by Evert den Hartog Over the last few years, we have written about the tall and weird-looking people living in the twilight zone...

painting Tom Lovell Earliest proof of Frisian merchants, or kāpmon  in the Old Frisian language, trading in slaves dates from the first...

Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do not let me perish in Friesland!' A cry-out of a Faroese young woman when she was being...

Frisia could easily claim the title: land of Atlantis. 19 inhabited islands and 244 villages drowned along the old Frisian coast trail...

The arrival of the Romans in the northwest of Europe at the beginning of the era, with the River Rhine as a frontier, was the starting...

“Is seaport Maasvlakte the gateway of the north-west of Europe? No? Is it Europoort then? No? Is it the Botlek port area? Is it the town...

On March 25, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was climbing towards its second peak. There was uncertainty about how destructive the...

"Reason I'm late for class? Well, you know, there was a strange cat in our barn this morning, and I stepped in its poop. Therefore, I...