Hans Faber
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...
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Hans Faber
May 24, 20198 min read
Giants of Twilight Land
At the intersection of land and sea, where it's difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt 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
Jan 20, 20197 min read
Know where to find your sweet potato
We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time the potato was exotic. Nowadays children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...
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
Jun 20, 201822 min read
Foreign Fighters returning from Viking warbands
From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an estimated...
Hans Faber
Jun 1, 201818 min read
Haute couture from the salt marshes
It was not the city of Parisius. Nor that of Lundenwic. Believe or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chique clothing...
Hans Faber
May 23, 20189 min read
Racing the Wadden Sea with a Silt Sled
The mud flats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with it? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic-meter mud flat...
Hans Faber
May 13, 20189 min read
Bil. A wasteland of non-integrated migrants?
This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middle Sea was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...
Hans Faber
Jan 19, 201835 min read
Porcupines bore U.S. bucks
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...
Frans Riemersma
Jan 13, 20186 min read
Half a million deaths. A forgotten North Sea disaster...
Did you know that between 328,770 and 502,190 people lost their lives around the North Sea? On the flip side: millions of possible...
Hans Faber
May 7, 201716 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 1, 201723 min read
Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden Sea. The era of the Crusades
When it comes to de-radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Frisians (in this context the modern regions of Ostfriesland and Land...
Hans Faber
Apr 17, 20178 min read
Walking the Sea
The treacherous mudflats of the Wadden Sea. They are UNESCO protected, but you're not. Take good care when walking sea. Read and shiver!
Hans Faber
Apr 17, 20179 min read
How to bury your mother-in-law
Your mother-in-law probably chased your tail during life. When she dies, do not think you are free at last. If you're looking for advice...
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