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Hans Faber
Jul 28, 20249 min read
“Ich mag Ihre Pelzer- und Schustertöchter nicht!” – a kiss of death
Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...


Hans Faber
Jan 13, 20247 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...

Frans Riemersma
Aug 28, 20238 min read
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel II)
To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...

Frans Riemersma
Jan 15, 20235 min read
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel)
Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...


Frans Riemersma
Jan 3, 202320 min read
How great was Great Pier?
Most Frisians know the name of Great Pier, or ‘Grutte Pier’ in Frisian. But what do we really know about him? Well, all we know for sure...

Hans Faber
Nov 12, 202213 min read
A Frisian warlord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him
featured image: Vendel helmet, Uppland, Sweden, ca AD 600 Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the...


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 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
Feb 19, 20227 min read
Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
Chrysagon and the Frisians (NBCUniversal) Who doesn't know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the big screen in 1959? A movie in which...


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
Aug 9, 202152 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
figurehead of Appels (Flanders) In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of...


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
May 16, 20208 min read
Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast!
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...


Hans Faber
Apr 26, 202043 min read
Our civilization – It all began with piracy
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...


Hans Faber
Feb 26, 20207 min read
Sailors escaped from Cyclops, but saw World's End
"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...


Hans Faber
Feb 23, 202015 min read
A Theel-Acht. What a great idea!
Halfway through the ninth century, Vikings had established a more or less permanent presence in Frisia, in the pagus 'territory' called...


Hans Faber
Jul 19, 201944 min read
The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings
Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...
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