Frans Riemersma
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel II)
To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...
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Hans Faber
- Nov 12, 2022
- 11 min
A Frisian lord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him
Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the Frisian brothers Corsold and Coarchion roamed, raided and...
Hans Faber
- May 28, 2022
- 9 min
Joan of Arc an inspiration for Land Wursten
In the year 1500 a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in Land Wursten, on the eastern banks of the...
Hans Faber
- Apr 10, 2022
- 14 min
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This post isn't about Aindreas Ó CéirÃn (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans Faber
- Dec 10, 2021
- 14 min
Pagare il fio
Pagare il fio is Italian for 'paying the penalty'. More literally, it means 'paying the fee'. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans Faber
- Oct 31, 2021
- 9 min
♫ They 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 Faber
- May 16, 2020
- 8 min
Latið meg ei á FrÃsaland fordervast!
Latið meg ei á FrÃsaland fordervast! 'Do not let me perish in Friesland!' A cry-out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...
Hans Faber
- Feb 23, 2020
- 12 min
A Theelacht. What a great idea!
Halfway the ninth century, Vikings had established more or less permanent presence in Frisia in the former pagus 'district' called...
Hans Faber
- Sep 23, 2019
- 26 min
Magnus’ Choice. The Origins of the Frisian Freedom
According to medieval legends, around the year 800 Charlemagne and pope Leo came into conflict with the citizens of Rome. The pope was...
Hans Faber
- Jul 27, 2019
- 14 min
Ornament of the Gods found in a mound of clay
In the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in (probably) the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the...
Hans Faber
- Jul 19, 2019
- 37 min
The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings
Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...
Hans Faber
- Jun 24, 2018
- 22 min
Upstalsboom: why solidarity is not the core of a collective
So many supranational organizations, whether governmental or juridical, are struggling with their legitimacy and survival, it's almost...
Hans Faber
- Mar 2, 2018
- 17 min
Frisian mercenaries in the Roman Army
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
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 6, 2018
- 6 min
Why 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 Riemersma
- Jan 3, 2018
- 7 min
The battles of Redbad, unplugged
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...
Hans Faber
- Dec 13, 2017
- 27 min
In debt to the beastly Westfrisians
This post is about the harsh history of the 'beastly' Westfrisians, and especially those of the town of Medemblik. Medemblik, grande dame...
Hans Faber
- Oct 7, 2017
- 7 min
Leeuwarden, European Capital of Exiled Governments
In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separation going through Europe and the world...
Hans Faber
- Sep 24, 2017
- 24 min
Island Walcheren: once Sodom and Gomorrah of the North Sea
In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries island Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with their...
Hans Faber
- Jul 2, 2017
- 36 min
Tolkien pleaded in favor of king Finn
Around the year 440 (Shippey 2022) a betrayal took place on the southern shores of the North Sea. A tragedy the peoples in northwestern...
Hans Faber
- May 1, 2017
- 20 min
Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden Sea
When it comes to de-radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Frisians (in this context modern regions Ostfriesland and Land Wursten...
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