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The fate of tribes and their names in the age of the Great Migration, between the fourth and sixth centuries, was anything but certain....

How to settle the scores in medieval Frisia when you killed someone: the function of a weregeld.

From 2012 onward, about 5,000 foreign fighters from various European countries travelled to the Levant to join the fighting. Six years later, roughly fifteen percent had died in combat. Others remained in the Middle East—imprisoned or drifting toward new conflict zones as terrorist groups lost ground. But some returned home. This wave of returnees is alarming, yet, regrettably, not unprecedented. Nearly a thousand years ago, laws were already being drafted to address the very

Hwasa thene vthemeda husath ieftha howath ieftha oppa sinne werf set, sa skel hi thes wachtia, hwetsa hi deth. Who receives a foreigner...

It is a well-known fact that the Frisians fought in foreign armies. Whether as foreign fighters  in the Mediterranean and the Levant, or...

Imagine you are hiking the Frisia Coast Trail in northwest Germany. After a long day of walking and searching for shelter, you try your luck at a private home. Before the owner agrees to let you stay the night, you may first be asked to show your silver. And, as if pressing an early version of a computer “confirm” button, a child in the household may be made to endure a painful tug on the ear in the process. Such were the methods of the first “legally blondes” for sealing an