Hans Faber
“Je suis Frison, et je suis plus têtu que vous!”
In our recent blog post Barbarians riding to the capital to claim rights on farmland, we told the famous story of the two Frisian kings...
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Hans Faber
- Sep 30, 2022
- 28 min
Don’t believe everything they say about sweet Cunera
Imagine. One day your husband brings home a young and unmarried woman. A virgin even. He simply takes her into your house, openly shows...
Hans Faber
- May 28, 2022
- 9 min
Joan of Arc an inspiration for Land Wursten
In the year 1500 a girl by the name Tjede Peckes was born in the hamlet of Padingbüttel in Land Wursten, on the eastern banks of the...
Hans Faber
- Apr 23, 2022
- 7 min
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...
Hans Faber
- Mar 20, 2022
- 69 min
Harbours, Hookers, Heroines and Women in Masquerade
Dockyards, quays, terminals, pilots, warehouses, wharves, anchorages, lighthouses and beacons, craftsmen, shipping companies, customs and...
Hans Faber
- Apr 24, 2021
- 54 min
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who's responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans Faber
- Apr 5, 2021
- 35 min
Yet another wayward archipelago
The peoples of islands and archipelagos don’t let others dictate how to live their life. One of those archipelagos that meets these...
Hans Faber
- Oct 30, 2020
- 4 min
Notre dame of Grou
The 'First Lady' of the village of Grou in province Friesland, the Netherlands, also named Grytsje of Grou. Archaeologists found her in...
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
- May 16, 2020
- 8 min
Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast!
Latið meg ei á Frísaland fordervast! 'Do not let me perish in Friesland!' A cry-out of a Faroese young woman when she was being kidnapped...
Hans Faber
- Jul 1, 2018
- 31 min
One of history’s enlightening hikes, that of Bernlef
This post isn't about the West-Frisian writer Hendrik Jan Marsman (1937-2012), whose pen-name was Bernlef. Nor is this post about student...
Hans Faber
- Aug 7, 2017
- 22 min
Frisian women: free and unbound?
Below Saskia Holleman. The reincarnation of Mata Hari, her fellow-citizen. Saskia, born in 1945 in the city of Leeuwarden in province...
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