Auteur: Auke

Every culture gets stereotyped, and Frisians are no exception. But stereotypes about Frisians are interesting because many…

The Frisians have a long history of fighting — against Romans, Franks, Vikings, Hollanders, and occasionally each…

Old Frisian hasn’t been a living language for centuries, but it left behind a vocabulary that’s raw,…

Were the Frisians Vikings? It depends on how you define “Viking.” If you mean Scandinavian raiders from…

On September 26, 1345, a Hollander invasion force landed on the Frisian coast near the village of…

The Dutch are the tallest people on Earth. That’s not folklore — it’s a statistically documented fact….

There’s a claim that pops up regularly in Friesland: the Frisians were the first to recognize American…

Before Christianity reached the Frisian coast (a process that took until the 8th century and required considerable…

Scattered across eastern England, there are towns, villages, and place names that hint at a Frisian presence…