Hans Faber
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...
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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
- Apr 10
- 13 min
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans Faber
- Mar 20
- 61 min
Harbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in Masquerade
Dockyards, terminals, pilots, warehouses, quays, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...
Hans Faber
- Dec 10, 2021
- 11 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
- Oct 31, 2021
- 6 min
They want you as a new recruit
'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...
Hans Faber
- Sep 10, 2021
- 11 min
Like Father, Unlike Son
The Battle of Tours in 732 was a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the biggest empires in...
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
- 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
- Nov 15, 2020
- 13 min
Rowing souls of the dead to Britain: the ferryman of Solleveld
In 2004, a unique discovery was made at the early-medieval grave field of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave....
Hans Faber
- Sep 5, 2020
- 11 min
Women of Anjum or One Night in Anjum
Late in the afternoon, December 28, 2018, one of the Frisian bastards arrived at Anjum after a hike that had started at Holwerd. A walk...
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;...