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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...

Who does not know the epic movie Ben-Hur , released on the big screen in 1959? A movie in which Hollywood actor and civil rights activist...

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