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Hans Faber
Aug 16, 202317 min read
Barbarians riding to the Capital to claim rights on farmland
This is not a blog post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders,...


Hans Faber
Sep 30, 202229 min read
Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera
Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...


Hans Faber
Apr 23, 20228 min read
Dissolute Elisabeth and Her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...


Hans Faber
Dec 10, 202115 min read
Pagare il fio
Death of Caligula by the Frisian artist Lourens Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) Pagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More...


Hans Faber
Apr 13, 202016 min read
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
Feb 16, 202010 min read
Attingahem Bridge, NY
Brooklyn. Named after the charming village of Breukelen in the Netherlands. Its original Frisian name was Attingahem. With only a twist...


Hans Faber
Jan 19, 201835 min read
Porcupines bore U.S. bucks
On May 5th, 2018, it was exactly two centuries ago that Karl Marx was born. When in 1867 the good man published the first part of Das...


Frans Riemersma
Jan 3, 20187 min read
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...


Frans Riemersma
Dec 28, 201710 min read
The biography of Aldgisl, unplugged
Ever heart of Aldgisl? Even if you did, you probably have a hard time separating fact from fiction. For a fact it is the first king of...


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...
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