Hans & Frans
Wa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?
“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
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Hans Faber
- Sep 5, 2020
- 11 min
Women of Anjum, or One Night in Anjum
Late in the afternoon, December 28, 2018. One of the Frisian bastards arrives at Anjum after a hike that started at the village of...
Hans Faber
- Mar 25, 2020
- 28 min
Out of averting the inevitable a community was born
The COVID-19 pandemic is climbing towards its peak. Uncertainty of how destructive the pandemic is going to be. How many family members...
Hans Faber
- Dec 1, 2019
- 5 min
The shipwrecked people of the salt marshes
Tidal marshlands and Frisians. A dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians (Frisii) had learned to adapt to this unprotected, hospitable...
Hans Faber
- Oct 25, 2019
- 19 min
Groove is in the Hearth
The hearth was in pre- and early-medieval times the holy of holies, the heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove. Groove...
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
- Mar 10, 2019
- 11 min
How the Hero of Haarlem is actually a dragon in disguise
It was a Yankee by the name Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. A story of life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans Faber
- Oct 14, 2018
- 12 min
Beacons of Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of region Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the north, to...
Hans Faber
- Mar 31, 2018
- 4 min
Refuge on a terp 2.0. Waiting to be liberated
August 21, 1930, Wieringermeer. The reclamation was completed. Of land that used to be called the Creil Woods, in province Noord Holland...
Hans Faber
- Dec 24, 2017
- 4 min
The terp that should have been a wierde
The Hague, June 29, 2013. The day Zwaantje Vink-Brouwer, widow of Piet Vink, together with a party of local government people, re-opened...
Hans Faber
- Oct 29, 2017
- 6 min
A terp for Choquequirao
Why in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...
Hans Faber
- Apr 23, 2017
- 15 min
Manual Making a Terp in 12 Steps
Here is your DIY manual for enlarging or creating your own terp, your artificial settlement mound or house platform. Despite terps are...
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