Frans Riemersma
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel II)
To understand the ‘greatness’ of Great Pier, we decided to look into his ‘achievements’. As a freedom fighter (or pirate, if you like)...
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Frans Riemersma
- Jan 15
- 5 min
How great was Great Pier? (the sequel)
Breaking! Great Pier measured around 2.30 meters in height! This question has been bugging the Frisians for centuries. Now we know. How?...
Frans Riemersma
- Jan 3
- 20 min
How great was Great Pier?
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...
Hans Faber
- Nov 12, 2022
- 11 min
A Frisian lord 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...
Hans Faber
- May 7, 2022
- 13 min
To the end where it all began: ribbon Ribe
Let's go to the omega, the end of the Frisia Coast Trail. To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town in Scandinavia. A town...
Hans Faber
- Apr 10, 2022
- 14 min
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This post isn't about Aindreas Ó CéirÃn (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans Faber
- Feb 19, 2022
- 7 min
Filmstar Ben-Hur made peace with Frisian raiders
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...
Hans Faber
- Oct 31, 2021
- 9 min
♫ They want you as a new recruit ♫
'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...
Hans Faber
- Aug 9, 2021
- 49 min
A Frontier known as Watery Mess: the Coast of Flanders
At the end of the eighth century, by decree of Charlemagne and under the supervision of the wise men Wlemar and Saxmund, the customary...
Hans Faber
- Jul 31, 2021
- 5 min
The raider’s portrait from Appels
In the year 1934, while dredging upstream the river Scheldt near the village of Appels in the region of Flanders, an extraordinary ship’s...
Hans Faber
- Apr 5, 2021
- 36 min
Yet another wayward archipelago
The peoples of islands and archipelagos don’t let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
- Mar 21, 2021
- 12 min
With a Noose through the Norsemen’s Door
Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...
Hans Faber
- Feb 21, 2021
- 8 min
Frisia, a Viking graveyard
When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is written...
Hans Faber
- May 16, 2020
- 8 min
Latið meg ei á FrÃsaland fordervast!
Latið meg ei á FrÃsaland fordervast! 'Do not let me perish in Friesland!' A cry-out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...
Hans Faber
- Apr 26, 2020
- 38 min
It all began with piracy
The arrival of the Romans in northwest Europe at the beginning of the era, with the river Rhine as frontier, was the starting signal for...
Hans Faber
- Feb 26, 2020
- 6 min
Sailors escaped from Cyclops
"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...
Hans Faber
- Feb 23, 2020
- 12 min
A Theelacht. What a great idea!
Halfway the ninth century, Vikings had established more or less permanent presence in Frisia in the former pagus 'district' called...
Hans Faber
- Jul 19, 2019
- 38 min
The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings
Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong heathens of Frisia. From the influential...
Hans Faber
- Dec 24, 2018
- 27 min
Have a Frisians Cocktail
With the upcoming seasonal festivities at the end of the year, it's appropriate to serve you a flavourful cocktail. It's a cocktail from...
Hans Faber
- Jun 20, 2018
- 21 min
Foreign Fighters returning from Viking war bands
From the year 2012, around 5,000 foreign fighters from European countries went to the Levant to fight. Six years later, an estimated...
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