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In the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honourable employ as a maid, and had...

This post is not about Aindreas Ó Céirín (1840-1915), better known as Brother Walfrid from Ireland, and who founded the Scottish football...

The Battle of Tours in 732 turned out to be a turning point in the wars against the Umayyad Caliphate. The Caliphate was one of the...

Although the conversion was a slow and cumbersome process, and only succeeded in-depth in the course of the tenth century, Frisia...

When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, often not much attention is given to the moments of failure. Not much is...

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...

High in the Swiss Alps in the region Bernese Oberland, many men, women and children have experienced the great horror of dead Frisians...

Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do no let me perish in Friesland!' A cry out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...

"The reason I am late for class? Well, there was a strange cat in our barn this morning, and I stepped in its poop. Therefore, I first...

Halfway the ninth century, Vikings had established more or less permanent presence in Frisia in the former district called Nordendi or...

Master blacksmith Wayland is well-known from mythology. The blacksmith who was kept captive on a small island in the sea, and escaped...

Acoording to legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the city of Rome. The Pope was attacked and...

In the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands...

In the series Myths of Nations we disclose to you this time that the Frisians, in fact, did not come from India, as the old legends tell...

Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of region Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the north, to...

Between 450-455 at the southern coast of the North Sea, a betrayal took place that has not been forgotten ever since. And it never will....

Rungholt, a thriving and wealthy town, disappeared overnight in the year 1362. For seven centuries only legends told us about what...