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Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do no let me perish in Friesland!' A cry out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...

Halfway the ninth century, Vikings had established more or less permanent presence in Frisia in the former district called Nordendi or...

Acoording to legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the city of Rome. The Pope was attacked and...

In the year 516, King Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in southeast Sweden, raided western Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands...

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

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

After the Roman Empire had incorporated a big chunck of the British Isles in the first century AD, the empire needed a military force to def

In March 714, Redbad's army reached the shores of Cologne. That is deep in the Frankish heartlands and way out of the traditional Frisian...

King Redbad died in 719. Some 1300 years later, as a tribute a movie about this Frisian king will hit the silver screen in the Dutch...

This blog post is about the harsh history of the 'beastly' Westfrisians and especially those of the town of Medemblik. Medemblik, the...

In Gǝrmany and the Netherlands the Frisians arǝ worried about thǝ wavǝ of rǝfǝrǝnda and separation going through Ǝuropǝ and the world;...

In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries the Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with their...

Between 450-455 at the southern coast of the North Sea, a betrayal took place that has not been forgotten ever since. And it never will....

When it comes to the de-radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Mid and East-Frisians (in this context modern provinces Groningen...

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...