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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 Frisians, a dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians (Frisii) had learned to adapt to this unprotective, hospitable...

Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from mythology. The blacksmith 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...

Last year one of the bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwestern Wales (Cymru), a 290 kilometres long trail. As every...

According to medieval legends, around the year 800 Charlemagne and pope Leo came into conflict with the citizens of Rome. The pope was...

In the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in the southeast of Sweden, raided 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 have been at one for a...

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

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 post we will explain that the Frisian lands might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some...

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, in fact, did not come from India, as the old legends tell...

With the coming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it is appropriate to serve you a flavorful cocktail. It is a cocktail from...

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