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The Friesenwall. An unfinished last-ditch coastal defence system
On 28 August 1944, a desperate Hitler ordered the construction of a huge defensive wall in the north of Germany, running all the way...
Hans Faber
May 44 min read
Was it the proverbial two captains on the same boat that made the Frisians free?
The much-celebrated Frisian Freedom is the period between more or less 1250 and 1500, a time when the Frisian terrae ‘lands’, with...
Hans Faber
Mar 305 min read
The Waugal, protector of fresh water and new life—hiking the Bibbulmun Track
The last two weeks of December 2024, one of the bastards of the Frisian Coast Trail solo hiked the coastal section of the Bibbulmun...
Hans Faber
Mar 2910 min read
The Old Man (and Woman) and the Sea—hiking the Lycian Way
April 2024. One of the bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail hiked part of the Lycian Way, or, in the Turkish language, Likya Yolu . It’s a...
Hans Faber
Jan 256 min read
Comb as you are, as you were
Theories exist that the tribe’s name of the Frisians comes from the Old Frisian word frisle meaning ‘lock of hair’, a word, in turn,...
Hans Faber
Nov 10, 20246 min read
Between Leffinge and Misthusum—understanding the basics of terps
Manmade hills to dwell on. Often considered typical Frisian, but they are not. Only think of the Kincaid Mounds of the Mississippian...
Hans Faber
Sep 29, 202420 min read
“Ich mag Ihre Pelzer- und Schustertöchter nicht!”—a kiss of death
Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...
Hans Faber
Jul 28, 202410 min read
Odin’s Ravens ruled over the southern shores. Not the Hammer of Thor
When re-enactors bring to life early-medieval Frisia, you regularly see them wearing a little iron hammer on a leather cord around their...
Hans Faber
Jun 9, 202421 min read
Hengist and Horsa—Frisian horses from overseas that founded the Kentish Kingdom
It is at the inn The Prancing Pony in the village of Bree that the Hobbits hope to be safe from the screeching Nazgûl on their coal-black...
Hans Faber
May 11, 202423 min read
"The man wants another steak," she snapped at the waitress—hiking the GR20
When thru-hiking, special encounters are part of the experience. One such encounter happened when one of the Frisian bastards completed...
Hans Faber
Mar 30, 20245 min read
Where are the corps and student associations? When do the Corpsbrüder and frats stand up?!
Recently, regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant published an article about how the town of Stavoren was tampering with the stones of the...
Hans Faber
Mar 9, 202412 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
Feb 18, 202415 min read
Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297
What is the use of celebrating only the battles you have won? Feeling proud and superior as a nation above that of another, and the...
Hans Faber
Feb 4, 202425 min read
The bishop from Frisia who proceeded The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, a character portrayed by the American actress Jennifer Lawrence, is survivor and victor of The Hunger Games. She comes...
Hans Faber
Jan 13, 20247 min read
Stavoren. A balancer on a slack rope of religion, trade, land, water, Holland, and Frisia
For many turbulent centuries, the town of Stavoren was a tightrope walker before it finally settled as a small harbour at the Lake...
Hans Faber
Jan 7, 202442 min read
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