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The Chronicles of Warnia. When history seems a fantasy story
The fate of tribes and tribe names during the age of the Wandering of Peoples, between the fourth and the sixth centuries, was uncertain....
Hans Faber
Feb 18, 202412 min read


A Dutch king once yelled: “Je suis Frison, et je suis plus têtu que vous!”
In our recent blog post Barbarians riding to the capital to claim rights on farmland , we told the famous story of the two Frisian kings...
Hans Faber
Aug 23, 20238 min read


Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera
Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...
Hans Faber
Sep 30, 202230 min read


Joan of Arc, an inspiration for Land Wursten
In the year 1500, a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in the region of Land Wursten on the eastern...
Hans Faber
May 28, 202211 min read


Dissolute Elisabeth and Her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honourable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20228 min read


Harbours, Hookers, Heroines, and Women in Masquerade
Dockyards, quays, terminals, warehouses, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses, and beacons. Craftsmen, shipping companies, customs, pilotage...
Hans Faber
Mar 20, 202280 min read


Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans Faber
Apr 24, 202160 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


Notre dame of Grou
The 'First Lady' of the village of Grou in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands, also named Grytsje of Grou. Archaeologists found...
Hans Faber
Oct 30, 20204 min read


The women of Anjum, who make hard men humble
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
Sep 5, 202013 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


One of history’s most enlightening hikes. That of Bernlef
This blog post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...
Hans Faber
Jul 1, 201836 min read


Frisian women: free and unbound?
Below Saskia Holleman: The reincarnation of Mata Hari, her fellow citizen. Saskia was born in 1945 in the town of Leeuwarden in the...
Hans Faber
Aug 7, 201724 min read
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