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

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 province Friesland, the Netherlands, also named Grytsje of Grou. Archaeologists found her in...

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

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

The hearth was in pre- and early-medieval times the holy of holies, the heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove. Groove...

Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong, heathen Frisians. From the influential...

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

This post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor is this post about the...

“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...

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 Walcheren Island 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 was probably chasing your tail during life. When she dies, don not think you are free at last. Looking for advice how...