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Pagare il Fio. How the Romans Fared in the Wet Woodlands and Salt Marshes
Pagare il fio  is Italian for 'paying the penalty,' though literally it means 'paying the fee,' a phrase inherited from the northern...
Hans Faber
Dec 11, 202115 min read
Come to Rescue 'The Rolling Sheep'
Hiking demands careful preparation, especially when it comes to personal safety. What is in your First Aid Kit? Do you have basic first...
Hans Faber
Nov 14, 202113 min read
♫ They want you as a new recruit ♫
'In the navy', a song by the Village People. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...
Hans Faber
Oct 31, 202110 min read
Like Father, Unlike Son—un saint frison en France
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 11, 202114 min read
Well, the Thing is ...
The heart of Western democracies is the joint assembly of Parliament, Cabinet, and High Councils of State. Its Celtic-Germanic origin is...
Hans Faber
Sep 5, 202144 min read
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under the supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, the customary...
Hans Faber
Aug 9, 202153 min read
10 words to travel 1,500 years and miles across the Frisian shores
Are these white letters on the wall encrypted gibberish to you? With learning a handful of keywords, you'll have deciphered them in no...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 1, 20213 min read
A Raider’s Portrait from Appels. The Water World of the Migration Period
In 1934, while dredging the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, workers unearthed an extraordinary ship’s...
Hans Faber
Jul 31, 20217 min read
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 & Frans
Jul 10, 20218 min read
More Flying 'Dutchmen'. Learnings from a simple innkeeper
On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards  of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...
Hans Faber
May 29, 202113 min read
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans Faber
Apr 24, 202160 min read
Yet Another Wayward Archipelago—the Wadden Sea
The peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
Apr 5, 202146 min read
With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door
Although the conversion of the Woden-devoted Frisians  was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...
Hans Faber
Mar 21, 202114 min read
Frisia, a Viking graveyard
Hjoggum vér með hjörvi —'we swung our swords'—as all the stanzas of the twelfth-century epic poem Lay of Kraka  begin, the tale of Ragnar...
Hans Faber
Feb 21, 20219 min read
History is written by the victors—a story of the credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. They call it a lot of things: Gotham, the Big Apple, the Empire City, Modern Gomorrah, even...
Hans Faber
Feb 10, 202135 min read
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