Hans Faber
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...
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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...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 6, 2018
- 6 min
Why was Redbad skinny dipping in eau de Cologne?
In March 714, Redbad's army reached the shores of Cologne. That is deep in the Frankish heartlands and way out of the traditional Frisian...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 3, 2018
- 7 min
The battles of Redbad, unplugged
King Redbad died in 719. Some 1300 years later, as a tribute a movie about this Frisian king will hit the silver screen in the Dutch...
Hans Faber
- Dec 13, 2017
- 27 min
In debt to the beastly Westfrisians
This post is about the harsh history of the 'beastly' Westfrisians, and especially those of the town of Medemblik. Medemblik, grande dame...
Hans Faber
- Oct 8, 2017
- 9 min
Medieval Migration Law
Hwasa thene vthemeda husath ieftha howath ieftha oppa sinne werf set, sa skel hi thes wachtia, hwetsa hi deth. Who receives a foreigner...
Hans Faber
- Sep 30, 2017
- 12 min
PRESS RELEASE: Consensus for a Frisia Tribunal
It is a well known fact the Frisians fought in foreign armies. Whether as foreign fighter in the Mediterranean and the Levant, or as...
Hans Faber
- Sep 24, 2017
- 24 min
Island Walcheren: once Sodom and Gomorrah of the North Sea
In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries island Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with their...
Frans Riemersma
- Aug 24, 2017
- 3 min
Clinton: "I did not have financial relations with that village"
On May 28, 2011 Bill Clinton held a speech in Achlum. The village has some 600 inhabitants. Looks like a small audience to me. What was...
Hans Faber
- Aug 7, 2017
- 22 min
Frisian women: free and unbound?
Below Saskia Holleman. The reincarnation of Mata Hari, her fellow-citizen. Saskia, born in 1945 in the city of Leeuwarden in province...
Hans Faber
- Jul 2, 2017
- 36 min
Tolkien pleaded in favor of king Finn
Around the year 440 (Shippey 2022) a betrayal took place on the southern shores of the North Sea. A tragedy the peoples in northwestern...
Hans Faber
- May 4, 2017
- 7 min
Lodging etiquette in Ostfriesland
Before the owner of the house agrees to give you lodging for the night, it might be you have to show him your silver. Like a computer...
Hans Faber
- May 1, 2017
- 20 min
Terrorist Fighters from the Wadden Sea
When it comes to de-radicalization of foreign terrorist fighters, Frisians (in this context modern regions Ostfriesland and Land Wursten...
Frans Riemersma
- Apr 30, 2017
- 5 min
The Boarn Supremacy
In the 8th century the Battle of the Boarn was fought. It was a huge battle between the Frisians and the Franks. The stakes were very...
Hans Faber
- Apr 17, 2017
- 7 min
Walking the Sea
The treacherous mudflats of the Wadden Sea. They are UNESCO protected, but you're not. Take good care when walking sea. Read and shiver!
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