Hans FaberApr 1013 minWalfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland, and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans FaberDec 10, 202110 minPagare il fioPagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means paying the fee. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans FaberOct 31, 20216 minThey want you as a new recruit'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...
Hans FaberMay 16, 20208 minLatið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast!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...
Hans FaberFeb 23, 202012 minA Theelacht. What a great idea!Halfway the ninth century, Vikings had established more or less permanent presence in Frisia in the former district called Nordendi or...
Hans FaberSep 23, 201919 minMagnus’ Choice. The Origins of the Frisian FreedomAcoording to legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the city of Rome. The Pope was attacked and...
Hans FaberJul 27, 201913 minOrnament of the Gods found in a mound of clayIn the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands...
Hans FaberJul 19, 201932 minThe Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the GerulfingsMonk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong, heathen Frisians. From the influential...
Hans FaberJun 24, 201818 minUpstalsboom: why solidarity is not the core of a collectiveSo many supranational organizations, whether governmental or juridical, are struggling with their legitimacy and survival, it is almost...
Hans FaberMar 2, 201816 minFrisian mercenaries in the Roman ArmyAfter 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
Frans RiemersmaJan 6, 20186 minWhy was Redbad skinny dipping in eau de Cologne?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...
Frans RiemersmaJan 3, 20187 minThe battles of Redbad, unpluggedKing 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...
Hans FaberDec 13, 201726 minIn debt to the beastly WestfrisiansThis post is about the harsh history of the ‘beastly’ Westfrisians, and especially those of the town of Medemblik. Medemblik, grande dame...
Hans FaberOct 7, 20177 minLeeuwarden, European Capital of Exiled GovernmentsIn Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separation going through Europe and the world...
Hans FaberSep 24, 201721 minIsland the Walcheren: once Sodom and Gomorrah of the North SeaIn contrast to the Sunday’s rest of today, for centuries the Walcheren Island was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with...
Hans FaberJul 2, 201733 minTolkien pleaded in favor of King FinnBetween 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....
Hans FaberMay 1, 201717 minForeign Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden SeaWhen it comes to the de-radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Mid and East-Frisians (in this context modern provinces Groningen...
Frans RiemersmaApr 30, 20175 minThe Boarn SupremacyIn 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...