Frans Riemersma
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?...
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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 25, 2022
- 15 min
Who’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 Faber
- Nov 12, 2022
- 10 min
A Frisian lord who ruled in Brittany, until his wife cheated on him
There where the English Channel and the Celtic Sea meet, is where the ships of the Frisian brothers Corsold and Coarchion roamed, raided...
Hans Faber
- Oct 25, 2022
- 7 min
Little prayers at the Lorelei rock
On 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 Faber
- Sep 30, 2022
- 26 min
Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera
Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young and unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...
Hans Faber
- Apr 23, 2022
- 7 min
Dissolute Elisabeth and her Devil
In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honorable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans Faber
- Apr 10, 2022
- 14 min
Walfrid, You’ll Never Walk Alone.
This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland and who founded the Scottish football...
Hans Faber
- Sep 10, 2021
- 12 min
Like Father, Unlike Son
The Battle of Tours in 732 was a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the biggest empires in...
Hans Faber
- Mar 21, 2021
- 11 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, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...
Hans Faber
- Nov 1, 2020
- 7 min
Legend of Esonstad
When, on a moon-clear night, on top of the dike at Lauwersmeer (lake Lauwers), you look out over the water, you just might see in the...
Hans Faber
- Jun 17, 2020
- 16 min
Make way for the dead!
High in the Swiss Alps in the region Bernese Oberland, many men, women and children have experienced the great horror of dead Frisians...
Hans Faber
- May 16, 2020
- 8 min
Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast!
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 kidnapped...
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
- Nov 16, 2019
- 15 min
Weladu the flying blacksmith
Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from mythology. The blacksmith who was kept captive on a small island in the sea, and escaped...
Hans Faber
- Sep 23, 2019
- 26 min
Magnus’ Choice. The Origins of the Frisian Freedom
According to medieval legends, around the year 800 Charlemagne and pope Leo came into conflict with the citizens of Rome. The pope was...
Hans Faber
- Jul 27, 2019
- 14 min
Ornament of the Gods found in a mound of clay
In the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in (probably) the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the...
Hans Faber
- Jan 13, 2019
- 12 min
We'll drive our ships to new land
In the series Myths of Nations we disclose to you this time that the Frisians, in fact, didn't come from India, as the old legends tell...
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