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“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
Jul 28, 202410 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...
Hans Faber
Jan 13, 20247 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
Aug 28, 20238 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 15, 20235 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...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 3, 202320 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...
Hans Faber
Nov 12, 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
May 7, 202215 min read


Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This blog post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish...
Hans Faber
Apr 10, 202216 min read


Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
Who does not know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the big screen in 1959? A movie in which the masculine Hollywood actor and civil...
Hans Faber
Feb 19, 20227 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
Oct 31, 202110 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
Aug 9, 202152 min read

The raider’s portrait from Appels
In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
Hans Faber
Jul 31, 20216 min read


Yet Another Wayward Archipelago – the Wadden Sea
The peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
Apr 5, 202145 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
Mar 21, 202113 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
Feb 21, 20219 min read


Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! And the murder of a bishop
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
May 16, 20209 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
Apr 26, 202044 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 26, 20207 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
Feb 23, 202015 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...
Hans Faber
Jul 19, 201945 min read
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