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Hans Faber
Nov 10, 20246 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
Sep 29, 202420 min read
Between Leffinge and Misthusum – Understanding the Basics of Terps
by Langeness.de Manmade hills to dwell on. Often considered typical Frisian, but they are not. Only think of the Kincaid Mounds of the...


Hans Faber
Jul 28, 20249 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
Jun 9, 202420 min read
Odin’s Ravens ruled over the southern shores. Not the Hammer of Thor
image by Denyse O'Leary When re-enactors bring to life early-medieval Frisia, you regularly see them wearing a little iron hammer on a...


Hans Faber
May 11, 202422 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
Feb 18, 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 4, 202424 min read
Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297
School instruction plate depicting Count Floris V of Holland when taken prison during falconry in 1296, the year he was murdered, painted...


Hans Faber
Jan 13, 20247 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 7, 202439 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
Dec 3, 202313 min read
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, 202313 min read
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, 202322 min read
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, 202341 min read
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, 20238 min read
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)...


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
Aug 16, 202317 min read
Barbarians riding to the Capital to claim rights on farmland
This is not a blog post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders,...


Hans Faber
Jul 23, 202330 min read
A Croaking Ode to the Haubarg by the Eiderstedter Nachtigall
Haubargs . Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of the peninsula of...


Hans Faber
Apr 3, 202316 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 202320 min read
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...
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