Hans Faber
PRESS STATEMENT: Consensus on Tribunal for Frisia
It is a well known fact the Frisians fought in foreign armies. Whether as foreign fighter in the Mediterranean and the Levant, or as...
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Hans Faber
Sep 24, 201728 min read
Walcheren Island. Once Sodom and Gomorrah of the North Sea
In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries the island of Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with...
Hans Faber
Sep 17, 20173 min read
Escher's homeland of confusion
"Dude, take a deep sigh and look at the landscape of the picture below. Don’t panic. You're not alone and the world isn't empty. Slowly...
Frans Riemersma
Aug 24, 20173 min read
Clinton: "I did not have financial relations with that village"
On May 28, 2011 Bill Clinton held a speech in Achlum. The village has some 600 inhabitants. Looks like a small audience to me. What was...
Hans Faber
Aug 22, 20178 min read
Celtic-Frisian heritage: there's no dealing with Wheels of Fortune
Exactly a year ago Hans van der Togt, a former Dutch television presenter of the game show Wheel of Fortune, told in the talk show Pauw abou
Hans Faber
Aug 7, 201724 min read
Frisian women: free and unbound?
Below Saskia Holleman: The reincarnation of Mata Hari, her fellow citizen. Saskia was born in 1945 in the town of Leeuwarden in the...
Hans Faber
Jul 2, 201744 min read
Tolkien pleaded in favour of King Finn. An immortalized royal tragedy
Around the year 440 (Shippey 2022), a betrayal took place on the southern shores of the North Sea. It was a tragedy that the peoples in...
Hans Faber
Jun 1, 20175 min read
Boots made for walkin’
Besides Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 recommendation in her song ; what kind of boots would we recommend to hike the Frisia Coast Trail? The...
Hans Faber
May 17, 201711 min read
"My God, the Germans bought all the bread!" cried Moira
The essence of the Frisia Coast Trail is hiking through the heartland of (former) Frisia and to taste the landscape, its history, its...
Hans Faber
May 7, 201716 min read
How a town drowned overnight. The case of Rungholt
Rungholt. A thriving and wealthy town that disappeared overnight in the year 1362. For six centuries only legends told us about what...
Hans Faber
May 4, 20177 min read
Lodging etiquette in Ostfriesland
Before the owner of the house agrees to give you lodging for the night, it might be you have to show him your silver. Like a computer...
Hans Faber
May 1, 201723 min read
Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden Sea. The era of the Crusades
When it comes to de-radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Frisians (in this context the modern regions of Ostfriesland and Land...
Hans Faber
Apr 30, 20179 min read
What’s hip and happening on the grasslands?
How do we Frisians spend our time off? Frisians in the Netherlands must have loads of it because perspectives for a job are about the...
Frans Riemersma
Apr 30, 20175 min read
The Boarn Supremacy
In the 8th century the Battle of the Boarn was fought. It was a huge battle between the Frisians and the Franks. The stakes were very...
Frans Riemersma
Apr 29, 20173 min read
The Mother of all Dykes
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to get down and dirty. Nope, this article is not about lesbians . This dyke is not made of flesh and...
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