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The heart of western democracies is the assembly, the parliament. Its Germanic origin is the thing, also called ting, ding or þing in...

At the end of the eighth century, under supervision of the wisemen Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the Frisians was codified, as was...

In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt at the village of Appels in the Region Flanders, a figurehead of a ship was...

If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...

Peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...

Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth over the course of the tenth century, Frisia...

New York City, the Capitol of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Empire City and Bagdad-on-the-Subway....

July 1987. The two Frisian bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...

Being at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also note at...

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

Rex illiteratus est quasi asinus coronatus ‘an illiterate king is like a crowned donkey’ or, if you prefer the alternative translation,...

Tidal marshlands and Frisians, a dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians (Frisii) had learned to adapt to this unprotective, hospitable...

This year one of the Frisian bastards hiked the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in south-western Wales (Cymru), a 290 kilometres long trail. As...

In this blog post we shall explain that the United Arab Emirates might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are...

How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.

Last month one the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail -and author of this blog post- hiked the Grande Randonnée 20 in Corsica. Or...

It was not Parisius, and it was not Lundenwic either. Believe or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chic clothing in...

This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee 'Middle Sea' in the Netherlands. A shallow inland sea that used to cut...

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

"Dude, take a deep sigh and look at the landscape of the picture below. Don’t panic. You're not alone and the world isn't empty. Slowly...