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Hero of Haarlem, or dragon in disguise? Rethinking sea-level rise strategies
It was a Yankee by the name of Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
Mar 10, 201914 min read


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
Jan 13, 201913 min read


Burn Beacons Burn. A Coastal Inferno—Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of the region of Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the...
Hans Faber
Oct 14, 201813 min read


Foreign Fighters Returning from Viking Warbands
From 2012 onward, about 5,000 foreign fighters from various European countries travelled to the Levant to join the fighting. Six years...
Hans Faber
Jun 20, 201824 min read


Frisian Mercenaries in the Roman Army. Fighting for Honour and Glory
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
Mar 3, 201818 min read


Porcupines Bore U.S. Bucks. The Birth of Economic Liberalism
On May 5th, 2018, it was exactly two centuries since Karl Marx was born. When the good man published the first volume of Das Kapital  in...
Hans Faber
Jan 19, 201837 min read


Did you dance with the blue light, yet?
Want some magic while walking the Frisia Coast Trail? If you happen to walk the beach at night, expect the unexpected. Sure, you might...

Frans Riemersma
Jan 10, 20181 min read


Walcheren Island. Once the Sodom and Gomorrah of the North Sea
In contrast to today’s Sunday rest, for centuries the island of Walcheren was a pagan stronghold and a safe haven for Vikings with their...
Hans Faber
Sep 24, 201730 min read


Tolkien Pleaded in Favour of King Finn. An Immortalized Royal Tragedy
Around the year 440 (Shippey 2022), a betrayal unfolded on the southern shores of the North Sea—a tragedy not forgotten in north-western...
Hans Faber
Jul 2, 201746 min read


How a town drowned overnight. The case of Rungholt
Rungholt. A thriving and wealthy town of the archipelago of the Wadden Sea that disappeared in the waves overnight in the year 1362. For...
Hans Faber
May 7, 201717 min read
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