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Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do no let me perish in Friesland!' A cry out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped by Frisian pirates i...

Frisia could easily claim the title: land of Atlantis. 19 inhabited islands and 244 villages drowned along the old Frisian coast trail in the past 1,500 yea...

The arrival of the Romans in northwest Europe at the beginning of the era, with the Rhine as frontier, was the starting signal for five centuries of widespre...

“Is seaport the Maasvlakte the gateway of northwestern Europe? No? Is it Europoort then? No? Is it the Botlek area? Is it Vlaardingen? No? Surely it's the ci...

The COVID-19 pandemic is climbing towards its peak. Uncertainty of how destructive the pandemic is going to be. How many family members and loved ones will i...

"The reason I am late for class? Well, there was a strange cat in our barn this morning, and I stepped in its poop. Therefore, I first had to clean my shoes ...

Halfway the ninth century Vikings had established more-or-less permanent presence in Frisia in the former district called Nordendi or Norditi. By AD 884 the ...

Brooklyn. Named after the village of Breukelen in the Netherlands. But its original Frisian name was Attingahem. With only a little twist of history Brooklyn...

Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus ‘an illiterate king is like a crowned donkey’ or, if you prefer the alternative translation, ‘is like a crowned ar...

Tidal marshlands and the Frisians are a dual entity. It is on these treeless salt marshes the Chauci and the Frisii (Frisians) dwelled when the Romans arrive...

Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from Germanic mythology. The smith who was kept captive on a small island in the sea and escaped from it with selfmad...

The hearth was in pre- and early-medieval times the holy of holies, the heart of the family. Where one would lay back and groove. Groove on the sound of the ...

This year one of the Frisian bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwestern Wales (Cymru), a 290 kilometres long trail. As every walker knows, h...

According to medieval legends around AD 800 Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the city of Rome. The Pope was attacked and had to flee the city...

In the year AD 516 King Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in southeast Sweden, raided western Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands was impenetrable la...

Who has not dined at least once in a '80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name 'The Great Wall'? At least you have been at one for a take-away. Yes, you ...

Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the heathen Frisians. From the influential monastery Rath Melsigi in Ireland he r...

On the edge of land and sea, where it is difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt of the sea is devastating to most ...

In this blog post we will explain that the United Arab Emirates might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some differences. Th...

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 published in New York i...