Hans Faber
Between Leffinge and Misthusum: Understanding the Basics of Terps
Manmade hills to dwell on. Often considered typical Frisian, but they are not. Only think of the Kincaid Mounds of the Mississippian...
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Hans & Frans
Jul 10, 20218 min read
Wa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?
“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
Hans Faber
Sep 5, 202012 min read
Women of Anjum, or One Night in Anjum
Late in the afternoon. December 28, 2018. One of the Frisian bastards arrives at the village of Anjum after a hike that started in...
Hans Faber
Mar 25, 202033 min read
Out of averting the inevitable a community was born
On March 25, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was climbing towards its second peak. There was uncertainty about how destructive the...
Hans Faber
Dec 1, 20198 min read
Shipwrecked People of the Salt Marshes
Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians ( Frisii or Fresones ) had learned to adapt to this...
Hans Faber
Oct 25, 201922 min read
Groove is in the Hearth. Very Superstitious is the Way
The hearth was, in pre- and early-medieval times, the Holy of Holies. The heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove....
Hans Faber
Jul 27, 201915 min read
Ornament of the Gods found in a mound of clay
In the year 516, King Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in (probably) the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the...
Hans Faber
Mar 10, 201912 min read
How the Hero of Haarlem is actually a dragon in disguise
It was a Yankee by the name Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. A story of life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
Oct 14, 201813 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
Mar 31, 20185 min read
Refuge on a terp 2.0. Waiting to be liberated
August 21, 1930, Wieringermeer in the province of Noord Holland. The reclamation of just another piece of the Zuiderzee ‘southern sea’...
Hans Faber
Dec 24, 20174 min read
The terp that should have been a wierde
The Hague, June 29, 2013. The day Zwaantje Vink-Brouwer, widow of Piet Vink, together with a party of local government people, re-opened...
Hans Faber
Oct 29, 20176 min read
A terp for Choquequirao
Why in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...
Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20178 min read
manual - Making a Terp in only 12 Steps
This is your DIY manual for enlarging or creating your own terp – your artificial settlement mound or house platform to be protected...
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