Frans Riemersma
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?...
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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
- Nov 25, 2022
- 15 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
- 10 min
A Frisian lord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him
There where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the Frisian brothers Corsold and Coarchion roamed, raided...
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
- Sep 30, 2022
- 26 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...
Hans Faber
- Aug 14, 2022
- 12 min
A severe case of inattentional blindness: the Frisian tribe’s name
The name Frisii for the people living on the southern coast of the North Sea is old. Very old. It dates from the Late Antiquity. Today we...
Hans Faber
- Jul 27, 2022
- 12 min
From Patriot to Insurgent: John Fries and the tax rebellions
On Facebook page ‘Frisian Americans‘ the question popped up what role certain Frisians played in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania in...
Hans Faber
- May 28, 2022
- 8 min
Joan of Arc an inspiration for Land Wursten
In the year 1500 a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in Land Wursten, on the eastern banks of the...
Hans Faber
- May 7, 2022
- 11 min
To the end where it all began: ribbon Ribe
Let’s go to the omega, the end of the Frisia Coast Trail. To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town of Scandinavia. A town...
Hans Faber
- Apr 10, 2022
- 14 min
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans Faber
- Mar 20, 2022
- 62 min
Harbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in Masquerade
Dockyards, terminals, pilots, warehouses, quays, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...
Hans Faber
- Dec 10, 2021
- 12 min
Pagare il fio
Pagare il fio is Italian for 'paying the penalty'. More literally, it means 'paying the fee'. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans Faber
- Oct 31, 2021
- 6 min
They want you as a new recruit
'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...
Hans Faber
- Sep 10, 2021
- 12 min
Like Father, Unlike Son
The Battle of Tours in 732 was a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the biggest empires in...
Hans Faber
- Sep 5, 2021
- 29 min
The Thing is ...
The heart of western democracies is the joint assembly of parliament, cabinet and high councils of state. Its Germanic origin is the...
Hans Faber
- Aug 9, 2021
- 48 min
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the...
Hans Faber
- Jul 31, 2021
- 5 min
The raider’s portrait from Appels
In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the river Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
Hans & Frans
- Jul 10, 2021
- 7 min
Wa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?
“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
Hans Faber
- Apr 24, 2021
- 53 min
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who's responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
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