Hans Faber
A severe case of inattentional blindness: the Frisian tribe’s name
The name Frisii for a people living on the southern coast of the North Sea is old. Very old. It dates from the Late Antiquity. Today we...
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Hans Faber
- May 28
- 8 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
- May 7
- 10 min
To the end where it all began: Ribbon Ribe
Let’s go to the omega, the end of the Frisia Coast Trail. To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town of Scandinavia. A town...
Hans Faber
- Apr 23
- 5 min
Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans Faber
- Feb 19
- 6 min
Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
Who does not know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the screens in 1959? The movie in which masculine Hollywood actor, and civil rights...
Hans Faber
- Sep 5, 2021
- 27 min
The Thing is ...
The heart of western democracies is the joint assembly of parliament, cabinet and high councils of state. Its Germanic origin is the...
Hans Faber
- Aug 9, 2021
- 48 min
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the...
Hans Faber
- Jul 31, 2021
- 5 min
The Raider’s Portrait of Appels
In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
Frans Riemersma and Hans Faber
- Jul 10, 2021
- 7 min
Wa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?
“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
Hans Faber
- May 29, 2021
- 8 min
More Flying 'Dutchmen'
On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...
Hans Faber
- Apr 24, 2021
- 43 min
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
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...
Hans Faber
- Apr 5, 2021
- 30 min
Yet another wayward archipelago
Peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...
Hans Faber
- Mar 21, 2021
- 11 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 21, 2021
- 7 min
Frisia, a Viking graveyard
When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...
Hans Faber
- Feb 10, 2021
- 29 min
History is written by the victors – a history of the credits
New York City, the Capitol of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Empire City and Bagdad-on-the-Subway....
Hans Faber
- Jan 4, 2021
- 4 min
Expelled from Regal Grounds
July 1987. The two bastards, both being sixteen years old at the time, went to the village of Wijnaldum, or Winaem in Mid-Frisian...
Hans Faber
- Nov 21, 2020
- 10 min
The Killing Fields, of the Celts
About 2,000 years ago a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-years-old girl, who suffered during her young life from scoliosis, was killed. Her...
Hans Faber
- Oct 29, 2020
- 6 min
Grassland Conversation
Being at the grasslands might lead to encounters with farmers or other wanderers and, of course, with ‘birdwatchers’ (see also note at...
Hans Faber
- Jul 22, 2020
- 15 min
With the White Rabbit down the Hole
R1b/Hg1/Eu18; R-M213; R-M9; R1b-M45; R-M207; R-M173; R-M343; R-L278; R-L754; R-L389/R1b1a1; R-M415; R-P297/R1b1a1a; R-M269/R1b1a1a2;...
Hans Faber
- Jun 17, 2020
- 16 min
Make way for the dead!
High in the Swiss Alps in the region Bernese Oberland, many men, women and children have experienced the great horror of dead Frisians...