Hans FaberFeb 1812 minThe Chronicles of Warnia. When history seems a fantasy storyThe fate of tribes and tribe names during the age of the Wandering of Peoples, between the fourth and the sixth centuries, was uncertain....
Hans FaberJan 736 minStavoren. A balancer on a slack rope of religion, trade, land, water, Holland and FrisiaFor many turbulent centuries, the town of Stavoren was a tightrope walker before it finally settled as a small harbour at the Lake...
Frans RiemersmaJan 15, 20235 minHow 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 RiemersmaJan 3, 202320 minHow 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 FaberNov 25, 202224 minWho’s afraid of Voracious Woolf?Who's afraid of Jóða Fenris ‘the offspring of Fenrir’? Afraid of hund hrynsævar hræva ‘the hound of the roaring sea corpses’? Who, today,...
Hans FaberNov 12, 202211 minA Frisian warlord 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 FaberOct 25, 20227 minLate Little Prayers at the Lorelei RockOn the west bank of the mighty River Rhine, halfway between the cities Koblenz and Mainz, lies the town of Sankt Goar. Named after Saint...
Hans FaberSep 30, 202229 minDon’t believe everything they say about sweet CuneraImagine. One day your husband brings home a young unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...
Hans FaberApr 23, 20227 minDissolute Elisabeth and Her DevilIn the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...