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Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...

Katniss Everdeen, a character portrayed by the American actress Jennifer Lawrence, is survivor and victor of The Hunger Games. She comes...

To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...

Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...

Most Frisians know the name of Great Pier, or ‘Grutte Pier’ in Frisian. But what do we really know about him? Well, all we know for sure...

featured image: Vendel helmet, Uppland, Sweden, ca AD 600 Where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the...

Let's go to the omega. To the end of the Frisia Coast Trail . To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town in Scandinavia. A...

This blog post isn't about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish...

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...

'In the navy', is a song of village people. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...

At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under the supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, the customary...

figurehead of Appels (Flanders) In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the River Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of...

The peoples of islands and archipelagos don't let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...

Although the conversion of the Woden-devoted Frisians was a slow and cumbersome process that only succeeded in depth in the tenth...

When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is written...

Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do not let me perish in Friesland!' A cry-out of a Faroese young woman when she was being...

The arrival of the Romans in the northwest of Europe at the beginning of the era, with the River Rhine as a frontier, was the starting...

"Reason I'm late for class? Well, you know, there was a strange cat in our barn this morning, and I stepped in its poop. Therefore, I...

Halfway through the ninth century, Vikings had established a more or less permanent presence in Frisia, in the pagus  'territory' called...

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