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The much-celebrated Frisian Freedom is the period between more or less 1250 and 1500, a time when the Frisian terrae ‘lands’, with...

Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...

What is the use of celebrating only the battles you have won? Feeling proud and superior as a nation above that of another, and the...

To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...

Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...

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...

On the Facebook page ' Frisian Americans ', the question popped up regarding the role certain Frisians played in the Whiskey Rebellion in...

In the year 1500, a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in the region of Land Wursten on the eastern...

Pagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means ‘paying the fee’. It is an expression the Italian language...

The peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...

Although the conversion of the Woden-devoted Frisians  was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...

New York City, the Capital of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, Big Apple, Empire City, and Baghdad-on-the-Subway. With...

According to medieval legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the citizens of Rome. The Pope was...

At the time of writing this blog post (2018), many supranational organizations, whether governmental or judicial, are struggling with...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Hwasa thene vthemeda husath ieftha howath ieftha oppa sinne werf set, sa skel hi thes wachtia, hwetsa hi deth. Who receives a foreigner...

In Germany and in the Netherlands, Frisians are worried about the wave of referenda and separations going through Europe and the world in...