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On 28 August 1944, a desperate Hitler ordered the construction of a huge defensive wall in the north of Germany, running all the way...

The much-celebrated Frisian Freedom is the period between more or less 1250 and 1500, a time when the Frisian terrae ‘lands’, with...

Manmade hills to dwell on. Often considered typical Frisian, but they are not. Only think of the Kincaid Mounds of the Mississippian...

Like everywhere along the Wadden Sea shores in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the small republics of the tidal marshlands had to...

lighthouse Kleine Preuße 'little Prussian' at the marsh near Wremem, Land Wursten Close to a terp named Fallward near the village of...

Beauty is the best guarantee for quality and success. At least, this is how farmers in the province of Friesland thought of dairy cattle...

Haubargs . Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped-shaped roofs up to twenty meters high that were, and are, icons of the peninsula of...

May 8, 2021. Visual artist, photographer Arie Bruinsma approached one of the Frisian bastards . Arie explained to him that his wife...

The name Frisii  for the people living on the southern coast of the North Sea is old. Very old. It dates from Late Antiquity. Today, we...

In the year 1500, a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in the region of Land Wursten on the eastern...

'In the navy', a song by the Village People. Of the small villages along the southern coast of the North Sea. A water people once united...

On the first of February 2020, one of the Frisian bastards  of the Frisia Coast Trail tramped the trail section from the town of Bad...

If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...

The peoples of islands and archipelagos do not let others dictate how to live their lives. One of those archipelagos that meets these...

Hjoggum vér með hjörvi  'we swung our swords', as all the stanzas of the twelfth-century Lay of Kraka begin. When reading about the...

For those outdoor enthusiasts who consider hiking the mudflats of the Wadden Sea, it is essential to know that this is not just a worldly...

When, on a moon-clear night, on top of the dyke at Lake Lauwersmeer, you look out over the water, you just might see in the distance the...

Late in the afternoon. December 28, 2018. One of the   Frisian bastards   arrives at the village of Anjum after a hike that started in...

Over the last few years, we have written about the tall and weird-looking people living in the twilight zone  of sea and land: the...

High up in the majestic Alps, in the region of Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, many men, women, and children have experienced the great...