Frans Riemersma
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel II)
To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...
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Hans Faber
- Aug 27
- 13 min
When the Gate of Hell opened at the Golden Necklace
When you enter by car the province of Friesland from the west via the Afsluitdijk ‘closure dyke’ and continue on the A7 Hwy, you will...
Hans Faber
- Aug 23
- 6 min
“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 16
- 13 min
Barbarians riding to the capital to claim rights on farmland
This is not a post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders, Germany...
Hans Faber
- Jul 23
- 27 min
An ode to the Haubarg by the green Eiderstedter Nachtigall
Haubargs. Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of peninsula Eiderstedt...
Hans Faber
- Apr 3
- 15 min
What Killed the Radio Star? The Frisian Claim to Radio Fame
After given a clear warning by the German Wehrmacht to buzz off, nosy Hanso Idzerda nevertheless returns to the crash site of a V2 rocket...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 15
- 5 min
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel)
Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 3
- 20 min
How great was Great Pier?
Most Frisians know the name of Great Pier, or ‘Grutte Pier’ in Frisian. But what do we really know about him? Well, all we know for sure...
Hans Faber
- Dec 14, 2022
- 7 min
The many faces of Friesland
May 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards. Arie explained to him that his wife...
Hans Faber
- Nov 25, 2022
- 18 min
Who’s afraid of Voracious Woolf?
Who's afraid of Jóða Fenris ‘the offspring of Fenrir’? Afraid of hund hrynsævar hræva ‘the hound of the roaring sea corpses’? Who, today,...
Hans Faber
- Nov 12, 2022
- 11 min
A Frisian lord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him
Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the Frisian brothers Corsold and Coarchion roamed, raided and...
Hans Faber
- Nov 5, 2022
- 8 min
Naranjas and Reservoir Dogs: Hiking in Andalusia
The last two weeks of 2021, one of the Frisian bastards hiked most of the Andalucían Coast to Coast Walk in Spain. A hike from Nerja to...
Hans Faber
- Oct 25, 2022
- 7 min
Little prayers at the Lorelei rock
On the west bank of the mighty river Rhine, halfway between the cities Koblenz and Mainz, lies the town of Sankt Goar. Named after Saint...
Hans Faber
- Oct 9, 2022
- 10 min
Three books (and a comic) reviewed on Frisia: Is history evidence based?
You'd say: “Sure, the study of history is evidence based and involves no politics! For this it's called a science, is it not? It's more...
Hans Faber
- Sep 30, 2022
- 28 min
Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera
Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young and unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...
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