Hans FaberMar 910 minWhere are the corps and student associations? Where are the frats, Corpsbrüder and dickheads?Recently, regional newspaper Leeuwarder Courant published an article about how the town of Stavoren was tampering with the stones of the...
Hans FaberDec 3, 202312 minThe Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the MarshClose to a terp named Fallward near the village of Wremen in Land Wursten, archaeologists discovered a unique site offering a rare...
Hans FaberNov 25, 20239 minA Collection of Frisian Forenames of the First MillenniumDespite the fact that some Frisian forenames still find their way into modern name-giving, like Doutzen, Femke, Finn, Jildou, Jitske,...
Hans FaberNov 12, 202321 minScratching runes was not much different from spraying tagsCarving runes into combs and stones is basically the same as spraying tags on subway cars and bicycle tunnels. Those who create runes or...
Hans FaberJul 23, 202328 minA Croaking Ode to the Haubarg by the Eiderstedter NachtigallHaubargs. Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of peninsula Eiderstedt...
Hans FaberDec 14, 20227 minThe many faces of FrieslandMay 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards. Arie explained to him that his wife...
Hans FaberNov 25, 202224 minWho’s afraid of Voracious Woolf?Who's afraid of Jóða Fenris ‘the offspring of Fenrir’? Afraid of hund hrynsævar hræva ‘the hound of the roaring sea corpses’? Who, today,...
Hans FaberNov 5, 20228 minNaranjas and Reservoir Dogs: Hiking in AndalusiaThe last two weeks of 2021, one of the Frisian bastards hiked most of the Andalucían Coast to Coast Walk in Spain. A hike from Nerja to...
Hans FaberOct 9, 202212 minThree books (and a comic) reviewed on Frisia: Is history evidence based?You'd say: “Sure, the study of history is evidence based and involves no politics! For this it's called a science, is it not? It's more...