Hans Faber
“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...
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Hans Faber
- Jun 9
- 19 min
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
- May 11
- 20 min
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
- Mar 30
- 5 min
"The man wants another steak," she snapped at the waitress
When thru-hiking, special encounters are part of the experience. One such encounter happened when one of the Frisian bastards completed...
Hans Faber
- Mar 9
- 12 min
Where are the corps and student associations? Where are the frats, Corpsbrüder and dickheads?
Recently, regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant published an article about how the town of Stavoren was tampering with the stones of the...
Hans Faber
- Feb 18
- 12 min
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 4
- 23 min
Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297
What's 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
- Jan 13
- 7 min
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 7
- 39 min
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
- Dec 23, 2023
- 6 min
Surf on someone else’s Turf. Hiking the Rota Vicentina
Boxing Day 2022. The Frisian bastard woke up in the small village of Aljezur in the southwest of Portugal. It was day ten for him hiking...
Hans Faber
- Dec 3, 2023
- 13 min
The Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the Marsh
Close to a terp named Fallward near the village of Wremen in the region of Land Wursten, archaeologists discovered a unique site...
Hans Faber
- Nov 25, 2023
- 13 min
A Collection of Frisian Forenames of the First Millennium
Despite the fact that some Frisian forenames still find their way into modern name-giving, like Doutzen, Femke, Hauk, Treintje, Finn,...
Hans Faber
- Nov 12, 2023
- 22 min
Scratching runes was not much different from spraying tags
Carving runes into combs and stones is basically the same as spraying tags on subway cars and bicycle tunnels. Those who create runes or...
Hans Faber
- Oct 1, 2023
- 40 min
Golden Calves, or bursting udders on bony legs?
Beauty is the best guarantee for quality and success. At least, this is how farmers in the province of Friesland thought of dairy cattle...
Frans Riemersma
- Aug 28, 2023
- 8 min
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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