Hans Faber
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...
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Hans Faber
- Apr 10
- 13 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
- 11 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
- Sep 23, 2019
- 25 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 19, 2019
- 33 min
The Abbey of Egmond and the rise of the Gerulfings
Monk Ecgberht of Ripon was the driving force behind the Christianization of the headstrong, heathen Frisians. From the influential...
Frans Riemersma
- Oct 27, 2018
- 8 min
Liudger, the first Frisian apostle
Liudger succeeded where other evangelists failed. He finally managed to convert the pagan Frisians to Christianity, because he “spoke...
Hans Faber
- Jul 1, 2018
- 29 min
One of history’s enlightening hikes, that of Bernlef
This post is not about the Westfrisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor is this post about the...
Frans Riemersma
- Jun 9, 2018
- 6 min
Finally, 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...