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Hans Faber
Feb 1812 min read
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
Aug 23, 20238 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
Sep 30, 202229 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
May 28, 202211 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
Apr 23, 20228 min read
Dissolute Elisabeth and Her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans Faber
Mar 20, 202276 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
Apr 24, 202160 min read
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who’s responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
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
Oct 30, 20204 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
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
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
Jul 1, 201833 min read
One of history’s most enlightening hikes. That of Bernlef
This blog post isn't about the West-Frisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...
Hans Faber
Aug 7, 201724 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...
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