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 FaberAug 23, 20237 minA Dutch king once yelled: “Je suis Frison, et je suis plus têtu que vous!”In our recent blog post Barbarians riding to the capital to claim rights on farmland, we told the famous story of the two Frisian kings...
Hans FaberAug 16, 202315 minBarbarians riding to the Capital to claim rights on farmlandThis is not a post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders, Germany...
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 FaberAug 14, 202213 minA severe case of inattentional blindness: the Frisian tribe’s nameThe name Frisii for the people living on the southern coast of the North Sea is old. Very old. It dates from Late Antiquity. Today we...
Hans FaberMay 28, 20229 minJoan of Arc an inspiration for Land WurstenIn 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 FaberMay 7, 202214 minTo the end where it all began: ribbon RibeLet's go to the omega, the end of the Frisia Coast Trail. To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town in Scandinavia. A town...
Hans FaberApr 23, 20227 minDissolute Elisabeth and Her DevilIn the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans FaberFeb 19, 20227 minFilmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raidersWho doesn't know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the white screen in 1959? A movie in which masculine Hollywood actor, and civil...