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Hero of Haarlem, or dragon in disguise? Rethinking sea-level rise strategies
It was a Yankee by the name of Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
Mar 10, 201914 min read


We'll drive our ships to new land
In the series Myths of Nations, we disclose to you this time that the Frisians, in fact, didn't come from India, as the old legends tell...
Hans Faber
Jan 13, 201913 min read


Burn Beacons Burn. A Coastal Inferno - Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region of Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the...
Hans Faber
Oct 14, 201813 min read


Foreign Fighters returning from Viking warbands
From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from different European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an...
Hans Faber
Jun 20, 201823 min read


Frisian mercenaries in the Roman Army
After the Roman Empire had incorporated a big chunck of the British Isles in the first century AD, the empire needed a military force to def
Hans Faber
Mar 2, 201818 min read


Porcupines bore U.S. bucks. The Birth of Economic Liberalism
On May 5th, 2018, it was exactly two centuries ago that Karl Marx was born. When in 1867 the good man published the first part of Das...
Hans Faber
Jan 19, 201836 min read


Did you dance with the blue light, yet?
Want some magic while walking the Frisia Coast Trail? If you happen to walk the beach at night, expect the unexpected. Sure, you might...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 10, 20181 min read


Walcheren Island. Once Sodom and Gomorrah of the North Sea
In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries the island of Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with...
Hans Faber
Sep 24, 201729 min read


Tolkien pleaded in favour of King Finn. A royal murder immortalized
King Finn (r) and Hengest (l) Around the year 440 (Shippey 2022), a betrayal took place on the southern shores of the North Sea. It was a...
Hans Faber
Jul 2, 201745 min read


How a town drowned overnight. The case of Rungholt
Rungholt. A thriving and wealthy town that disappeared overnight in the year 1362. For six centuries only legends told us about what...
Hans Faber
May 7, 201717 min read
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