Hans FaberMay 78 minTo the end where it all beganLet’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 FaberApr 235 minDissolute Elisabeth and her DevilIn the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honourable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans FaberApr 1013 minWalfrid, 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 FaberMar 2061 minHarbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in MasqueradeDockyards, terminals, pilots, warehouses, quays, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...
Hans FaberDec 10, 202110 minPagare il fioPagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means paying the fee. It is an expression the Italian language...
Hans FaberOct 31, 20216 minThey 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 FaberSep 10, 202111 minLike Father, Unlike SonThe Battle of Tours in 732 turned out to be a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the...
Hans FaberSep 5, 202126 minThe 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 FaberAug 9, 202146 minA Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of FlandersAt the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under supervision of the wisemen Wlemar and Saxmund, customary law of the...
Hans FaberJul 31, 20214 minThe Raider’s Portrait of AppelsIn 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 FaberJul 10, 20217 minWa 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 FaberApr 24, 202143 minHappy Hunting Grounds in the ArcticIf 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 FaberApr 5, 202129 minYet another wayward archipelagoPeoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these criteria...
Hans FaberMar 21, 202111 minWith a Noose through the Norsemen’s DoorAlthough the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...
Hans FaberFeb 21, 20217 minFrisia, a Viking graveyardWhen reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...
Hans FaberFeb 10, 202129 minHistory is written by the victors – a history of the creditsNew York City, the Capitol of the World. Other names are Gotham, Modern Gomorrah, The Big Apple, Empire City and Bagdad-on-the-Subway....
Hans FaberNov 15, 202013 minRowing souls of the dead to Britain: the ferryman of SolleveldIn 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 FaberSep 5, 202011 minWomen of Anjum or One Night in AnjumLate 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 FaberJul 22, 202015 minWith the White Rabbit down the HoleR1b/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 FaberJun 19, 20206 minMerciless medieval merchantsThe earliest proof of Frisian merchants trading in slaves dates from the seventh century. It was Venerable Bede himself, the Father of...