Hans FaberApr 235 minDissolute Elisabeth and her DevilIn the Middle Age lived a once promiscuous girl named Elisabeth. She had come to repentance, found honourable employ as a maid, and had...
Hans FaberApr 1013 minWalfrid, 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 FaberSep 10, 202111 minLike Father, Unlike SonThe 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...
Hans FaberSep 23, 201919 minMagnus’ Choice. The Origins of the Frisian FreedomAcoording to legends, around the year 800, Charlemagne and Pope Leo came into conflict with the city of Rome. The Pope was attacked and...
Hans FaberJul 19, 201932 minThe Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the GerulfingsMonk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong, heathen Frisians. From the influential...
Frans RiemersmaOct 27, 20188 minLiudger, the first Frisian apostleLiudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...
Hans FaberJul 1, 201827 minOne of history’s enlightening hikes, that of BernlefThis post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor is this post about the...
Frans RiemersmaJun 9, 20186 minFinally, King Redbad made his point in the European Commission - via Facebook“I can not live without the company of my forefathers”, Redbad said in an interview in 718. In 2018 this sentence caused turmoil in the...