Hans Faber
Legend of Esonstad
When, on a moon-clear night, on top of the dyke at Lake Lauwersmeer, you look out over the water, you just might see in the distance the...
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Hans Faber
Oct 30, 20204 min
Notre dame of Grou
The 'First Lady' of the village of Grou in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands, also named Grytsje of Grou. Archaeologists found...
Hans Faber
Oct 29, 20207 min
Grassland Conversation
Being at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also the note...
Hans Faber
Sep 5, 202012 min
Women of Anjum, or One Night in Anjum
Late in the afternoon. December 28, 2018. One of the Frisian bastards arrives at the village of Anjum after a hike that started in...
Hans Faber
Jul 22, 202017 min
With the White Rabbit down the Hole
R1b/Hg1/Eu18; R-M213; R-M9; R1b-M45; R-M207; R-M173; R-M343; R-L278; R-L754; R-L389/R1b1a1; R-M415; R-P297/R1b1a1a; R-M269/R1b1a1a2;...
Hans Faber
Jul 6, 202017 min
Rats with Wings, or Masters of the Sky
Over the last few years, we've written about the tall and weird-looking people living in the twilight zone of sea and land: the coastal...
Hans Faber
Jun 19, 202010 min
Merciless Medieval Merchants and Slavers
Earliest proof of Frisian merchants, or kāpmon in the Old Frisian language, trading in slaves dates from the first half of the seventh...
Hans Faber
Jun 17, 202020 min
Make way for the homesick dead!
High up in the Swiss Alps, in the region of Bernese Oberland, many men, women, and children have experienced the great horror of dead...
Hans Faber
May 16, 20208 min
Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast!
Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do not let me perish in Friesland!' A cry-out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...
Frans Riemersma
May 5, 202013 min
Atlantis found! Wait, there is another one, or 7, wait 12 in total... No, 19!
Frisia could easily claim the title: land of Atlantis. 19 inhabited islands and 244 villages drowned along the old Frisian coast trail...
Hans Faber
Apr 26, 202042 min
Our civilization - It all began with piracy
The arrival of the Romans in the northwest of Europe at the beginning of the era, with the River Rhine as a frontier, was the starting...
Hans Faber
Apr 13, 202016 min
The Batwing Doors of Northwest Europe
“Is seaport Maasvlakte the gateway of north-western Europe? No? Is it Europoort then? No? Is it the Botlek port area? Is it Vlaardingen?...
Hans Faber
Mar 25, 202033 min
Out of averting the inevitable a community was born
On March 25, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was climbing towards its second peak. There was uncertainty about how destructive the...
Hans Faber
Feb 26, 20206 min
Sailors escaped from Cyclops, but saw World's End
"Reason I'm late for class? Well, you know, there was a strange cat in our barn this morning, and I stepped in its poop. Therefore, I...
Hans Faber
Feb 23, 202014 min
A Theel Acht. What a great idea!
Halfway through the ninth century, Vikings had established a more or less permanent presence in Frisia, in the pagus 'territory' called...
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