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image by Denyse O'Leary When re-enactors bring to life early-medieval Frisia, you regularly see them wearing a little iron hammer on a...

This is not a blog post about the current agriculture and nitrogen debates between the government in Brussels and farmers in Flanders,...

Who doesn't know the epic movie Ben-Hur released on the white screen in 1959? A movie in which masculine Hollywood actor, and civil...

About 2,000 years ago, a tragedy unfolded. A sixteen-year-old girl, who had suffered from scoliosis during her young life, was killed....

In 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....

The 'First Lady' of the village of Grou in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands, also named Grytsje of Grou. Archaeologists found...

High up in the Swiss Alps, in the region of Bernese Oberland, many men, women, and children have experienced the great horror of dead...

Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from mythology. The blacksmith was kept captive on a small island in the sea and escaped from it...

Kierin Magenta Kirby The hearth was, in pre- and early-medieval times, the Holy of Holies. The heart of the family. Where you would lay...

Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...

Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...

This blog post isn't about the West-Frisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen name was Bernlef. Nor is this blog post...

“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...

Ever heart of Aldgisl? Even if you did, you probably have a hard time separating fact from fiction. For a fact it is the first king of...

Why in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...

In contrast to the Sunday's rest of today, for centuries the island of Walcheren was a pagan retreat and safe haven for the Vikings with...

Exactly a year ago Hans van der Togt, a former Dutch television presenter of the game show Wheel of Fortune, told in the talk show Pauw abou

Your mother-in-law probably chased your tail during life. When she dies, do not think you are free at last. If you're looking for advice...