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When re-enactors bring early-medieval Frisia to life, they are often seen wearing a small iron hammer on a leather cord around their neck—symbolizing Mjölnir, the mighty weapon of the Norse god Thor. We regret to inform them that Mjölnir was not at all fashionable along the southern shores of the North Sea—not on either side of the Southern Bight. Instead, it was Huginn and Muninn who were the true pop idols. These names belonged to the two black ravens of Odin, another Norse

Who does not know the epic film Ben-Hur , released on the big screen in 1959? In this classic, Hollywood actor and civil rights activist Charlton Heston (1923–2008) portrayed Judah Ben-Hur, a performance that earned him an Oscar. Six years later, Heston took on the role of Chrysagon in The War Lord — a much braver role than Ben-Hur, as a mere galley slave and later a charioteer. In The War Lord , Heston’s character must confront frightful Frisians and, inevitably, was forced

It was not the city of Parisius ('Paris'). Nor that of Londinium ('London'). Believe it or not, the early-medieval center for expensive cloth and chic clothing in the northwest of Europe was the muddy Wadden Sea coast. Here the highly sought-after pallia Fresonica ('Frisian cloth') was fabricated and distributed to the wider world. It possessed a quality good enough for red capes of handsome superheroes like Superman and Thor, and for the heklu blá ('blue capes') which Od

When it comes to the deradicalization of foreign terrorist fighters in modern Western societies, the Frisians—meaning here the present-day regions of Ostfriesland and Land Wursten in Germany, and the provinces of Friesland and Groningen in the Netherlands—have neither a strong track record nor notable expertise to offer. Their only meaningful contribution to contemporary counterterrorism efforts lies in the lessons of their own past: a vivid example of how radicalization and