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Over the last years we have written about the people living in the twilight zone of sea and land at the southern shores of the North Sea....

The earliest proof of Frisian merchants trading in slaves dates from the seventh century. It was Venerable Bede himself, the Father of...

High in the Alps of Switzerland, in the region Bernese Oberland, many men, women and children have experienced the great horror of the...

Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do no let me perish in Friesland!' A cry out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...

Frisia could easily claim the title: land of Atlantis. 19 inhabited islands and 244 villages drowned along the old Frisian coast trail...

The arrival of the Romans in northwest Europe at the beginning of the era, with the Rhine as frontier, was the starting signal for five...

“Is seaport the Maasvlakte the gateway of northwestern Europe? No? Is it Europoort then? No? Is it the Botlek area? Is it Vlaardingen?...

The COVID-19 pandemic is climbing towards its peak. Uncertainty of how destructive the pandemic is going to be. How many family members...

"The reason I am late for class? Well, there was a strange cat in our barn this morning, and I stepped in its poop. Therefore, I first...

Halfway the ninth century, Vikings had established more or less permanent presence in Frisia in the former district called Nordendi or...

Brooklyn. Named after the village of Breukelen in the Netherlands. Its original Frisian name was Attingahem. With only a twist of history...

Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus ‘an illiterate king is like a crowned donkey’ or, if you prefer the alternative translation,...

Tidal marshlands and the Frisians are a dual entity. It is on these treeless salt marshes, the Chauci and the Frisii (Frisians) dwelled...

Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from Germanic mythology. The smith who was kept captive on a small island in the sea and escaped...

The hearth was in pre- and early-medieval times the holy of holies, the heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove. Groove...

This year one of the Frisian bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in south-western Wales (Cymru), a 290 kilometres long trail. As...

Acoording to legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the city of Rome. The Pope was attacked and...

In the year 516, King Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in southeast Sweden, raided western Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands...

Who has not dined at least once in an '80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name 'The Great Wall'? At least you've been at one for a...

Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong, heathen Frisians. From the influential...