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On the edge of land and sea, where it is difficult to tell what is land and what is not, life is rough. The corrosive salt of the sea is...

In this blog post we shall explain that the United Arab Emirates might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are...

It was a Yankee by the name Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. A story of life in Holland’. The book was...

We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time the potato was exotic. Nowadays children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...

In the series Myths of Nations we disclose to you this time that the Frisians actually didn't come from India, as the old legends tell...

With all the seasonal festivities this month, it is appropriate to serve you a flavorful cocktail. It is a cocktail from the list 'Myths...

How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.

This blog is a virtual hike. Grab a coffee and go 200 kilometers per hour. When ploughing through piles of research on where the Frisians...

Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...

Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the north...

Last month one the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail -and author of this blog post- hiked the Grande Randonnée 20 in Corsica. Or...

Here are some maps that help you locate the Frisians in the early Middle Ages (500-800 AD). We combined old maps, archaeological finds,...

We plotted the exact locations of the whereabouts of the five Frisian kings Finn, Audulfus, Aldgils, Redbad and Poppo. We might have even...

No, this blog post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012, the Netherlands) whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor...

So many supranational organizations, whether governmental or juridical, are struggling with their legitimacy and survival, it is almost...

From 2012 around 5,000 foreign fighters from European countries went to the Levant to fight. An estimated fifteen percent has died in...

Not much is known about Redbad’s death. Many Frankish fragments use his year of death as a historical point of reference for many events....

“I can not live without the company of my forefathers”, Redbad said in an interview in 718. In 2018 this sentence caused turmoil in the...

It was not Parisius, and it was not Lundenwic either. Believe or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chic clothing in...

The mudflats of the Wadden Sea are endless. But what to do with it? How do you give meaning to mud? Yes, one cubic-meter mudflat contains...