Hans Faber
Another brick in the wall
Who hasn't dined at least once in an '80s Chinese restaurant that carried the name 'The Great Wall'? Certainly you've been at one for a...
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Hans Faber
- Jul 19, 2019
- 36 min
The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings
Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...
Hans Faber
- Jan 20, 2019
- 7 min
Know where to find your sweet potato
We retrace our steps back to the sixteenth century. A time the potato was exotic. Nowadays children eat pastas, pizzas, burgers,...
Hans Faber
- Jan 13, 2019
- 12 min
We'll drive our ships to new land
In the series Myths of Nations we disclose to you this time that the Frisians, in fact, didn't come from India, as the old legends tell...
Hans Faber
- Nov 11, 2018
- 13 min
You killed a man? That'll be 1 weregeld, please
How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.
Frans Riemersma
- Nov 3, 2018
- 3 min
Take a virtual hike through Zuid-Holland and Utrecht
This blog is a virtual hike. Grab a coffee and go 200 kilometers per hour. When ploughing through piles of research on where the Frisians...
Frans Riemersma
- Oct 27, 2018
- 8 min
Liudger, the first Frisian apostle
Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...
Hans Faber
- Oct 14, 2018
- 12 min
Beacons of Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of region Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the north, to...
Frans Riemersma
- Sep 1, 2018
- 6 min
Is Magna Frisia fact or fiction?
Here are some maps that help you locate the Frisians in the early Middle Ages (500-800 AD). We combined old maps, archaeological finds,...
Frans Riemersma
- Aug 19, 2018
- 9 min
Follow the footsteps of Five Frisian Kings
We plotted the exact locations of the whereabouts of the five Frisian kings Finn, Audulfus, Aldgils, Redbad and Poppo. We might have even...
Hans Faber
- Jul 1, 2018
- 31 min
One of history’s enlightening hikes, that of Bernlef
This post isn't about the West-Frisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor is this post about student...
Hans Faber
- Jun 24, 2018
- 22 min
Upstalsboom: why solidarity is not the core of a collective
So many supranational organizations, whether governmental or juridical, are struggling with their legitimacy and survival, it's almost...
Hans Faber
- Jun 20, 2018
- 20 min
Foreign Fighters returning from Viking war bands
From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an estimated...
Frans Riemersma
- Jun 16, 2018
- 4 min
King Redbad’s last act
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....
Frans Riemersma
- Jun 9, 2018
- 6 min
Finally, King Redbad made his point in the European Commission - via Facebook
“I can not live without the company of my forefathers”, Redbad said in an interview in 718. In 2018 this sentence caused turmoil in the...
Hans Faber
- Jun 1, 2018
- 16 min
Haute couture from the salt marshes
It was not the city of Parisius. Nor that of Lundenwic. Believe or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chique clothing...
Hans Faber
- May 13, 2018
- 9 min
Bil. A wasteland of non-integrated migrants?
This is the story of the reclamation of the former Middelzee in the Netherlands. The Middle Sea was a shallow inland sea that used to cut...
Hans Faber
- Mar 31, 2018
- 5 min
Refuge on a terp 2.0. Waiting to be liberated
August 21, 1930, Wieringermeer. The reclamation of another piece of the Zuiderzee ‘southern sea’ was completed. An wooded area, when it...
Hans Faber
- Mar 2, 2018
- 17 min
Frisian mercenaries in the Roman Army
After the Roman Empire had incorporated a big chunck of the British Isles in the first century AD, the empire needed a military force to def
Hans Faber
- Jan 19, 2018
- 34 min
Porcupines bore U.S. bucks
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...
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