Hans FaberFeb 1812 minThe Chronicles of Warnia. When history seems a fantasy storyThe fate of tribes and tribe names during the age of the Wandering of Peoples, between the fourth and the sixth centuries, was uncertain....
Hans FaberFeb 422 minGuerrilla in the Polder. The Battle of Vroonen in 1297What’s the use of celebrating only the battles you have won? Feeling proud and superior as a nation above that of another, and the...
Hans FaberJan 137 minThe bishop from Frisia who proceeded The Hunger GamesKatniss Everdeen, a character portrayed by the American actress Jennifer Lawrence, is survivor and victor of The Hunger Games. She comes...
Hans FaberJan 736 minStavoren. A balancer on a slack rope of religion, trade, land, water, Holland and FrisiaFor many turbulent centuries, the town of Stavoren was a tightrope walker before it finally settled as a small harbour at the Lake...
Hans FaberDec 3, 202312 minThe Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the MarshClose to a terp named Fallward near the village of Wremen in Land Wursten, archaeologists discovered a unique site offering a rare...
Hans FaberAug 23, 20237 minA Dutch king once yelled: “Je suis Frison, et je suis plus têtu que vous!”In our recent blog post Barbarians riding to the capital to claim rights on farmland, we told the famous story of the two Frisian kings...
Hans FaberAug 16, 202315 minBarbarians riding to the Capital to claim rights on farmlandThis is not a post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders, Germany...
Hans FaberNov 25, 202224 minWho’s afraid of Voracious Woolf?Who's afraid of Jóða Fenris ‘the offspring of Fenrir’? Afraid of hund hrynsævar hræva ‘the hound of the roaring sea corpses’? Who, today,...
Hans FaberNov 12, 202211 minA Frisian warlord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the Frisian brothers Corsold and Coarchion roamed, raided and...