Hans Faber
“Ich mag Ihre Pelzer- und Schustertöchter nicht!” - a kiss of death
Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...
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Hans Faber
- Feb 4
- 23 min
Guerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297
What's the use of celebrating only the battles you have won? Feeling proud and superior as a nation above that of another, and the...
Frans Riemersma
- Aug 28, 2023
- 8 min
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)...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 15, 2023
- 5 min
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel)
Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 3, 2023
- 20 min
How great was Great Pier?
Most Frisians know the name of Great Pier, or ‘Grutte Pier’ in Frisian. But what do we really know about him? Well, all we know for sure...
Hans Faber
- Jul 27, 2022
- 15 min
From Patriot to Insurgent: John Fries and the tax rebellions
On Facebook page 'Frisian Americans' the question popped up what role certain Frisians played in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania in...
Hans Faber
- May 28, 2022
- 10 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
- Dec 10, 2021
- 15 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
- Apr 5, 2021
- 38 min
Yet Another Wayward Archipelago
The peoples of islands and archipelagos don't let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
- Mar 21, 2021
- 12 min
With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door
Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...
Hans Faber
- Feb 10, 2021
- 34 min
History is written by the victors – a story of the credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, Big Apple, Empire City, and Baghdad-on-the-Subway. With...
Hans Faber
- Sep 23, 2019
- 30 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
- Jun 24, 2018
- 26 min
The Treaty of the Upstalsboom. And 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...
Frans Riemersma
- Jun 16, 2018
- 4 min
King Redbad’s last act
Not much is known about Redbad’s death. Many Frankish fragments use his year of death as a historical point of reference for many events....
Hans Faber
- Jan 19, 2018
- 35 min
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 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
- Oct 8, 2017
- 10 min
Medieval Migration Law
Hwasa thene vthemeda husath ieftha howath ieftha oppa sinne werf set, sa skel hi thes wachtia, hwetsa hi deth. Who receives a foreigner...
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...
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