Frisia Coast Trail
@frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social
The 1,000 mile coastal history hike. For people with fear of heights and interest in 2,500 years of living on the sharp edge of land and sea - www.frisiacoasttrail.blog/blog
Reposted by Frisia Coast Trail
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
#Hiking the Rota Vicentina
Surf on Someone Else’s Turf — Hiking the Rota Vicentina
Boxing Day 2022. The Frisian bastard woke up in the small village of Aljezur in the southwest of Portugal. It was day ten of his hike along the Rota Vicentina, with three more days ahead. Like the …
frisiacoasttrail.blog
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#Hiking the Rota Vicentina
The Frisian-Dutch broadcasting company that inspired in 1919 the creation of the BBC: frisiacoasttrail.blog/2023/04/03/w...
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Frisian-Dutch broadcasting company that inspired in 1919 the creation of the BBC: frisiacoasttrail.blog/2023/04/03/w...
Who killed the Arctic whale?
Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic. The Way the Whale’s Doom Was Sealed
If you want to track down who killed the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail region is the place to start. Stop people on the streets along this southern North Sea littoral and ask whether they know anyt…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Who killed the Arctic whale?
The mind of a ...
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The mind of a ...
Happy Halloween
Make Way for the Homesick Dead! A Saga From the Swiss Alps
High up in the majestic Alps, in the region of Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, many men, women, and children have experienced the great horror of dead Frisians marching back to their homeland unde…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Happy Halloween
Reposted by Frisia Coast Trail
Today is the feast day of Saint Wilfrid, founder of the abbey in my home town of Hexham.
This time last year, I wrote about Wilfrid and his fellow Northumbrian Willibrord, and their travels in Frisia.
This time last year, I wrote about Wilfrid and his fellow Northumbrian Willibrord, and their travels in Frisia.
Northumbrians on tour
Wilfrid and Willibrord in Frisia
northseanexus.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Today is the feast day of Saint Wilfrid, founder of the abbey in my home town of Hexham.
This time last year, I wrote about Wilfrid and his fellow Northumbrian Willibrord, and their travels in Frisia.
This time last year, I wrote about Wilfrid and his fellow Northumbrian Willibrord, and their travels in Frisia.
Reposted by Frisia Coast Trail
De rond het begin van onze jaartelling door de Romeinen 'Frisii' genoemde stammen, die in de moerasgebieden langs onze kust woonden, waren oorspronkelijk Germaanse stammen.
Als je dat een interessant onderwerp vindt, kan ik je @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social (en hun website) aanbevelen.
Als je dat een interessant onderwerp vindt, kan ik je @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social (en hun website) aanbevelen.
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
De rond het begin van onze jaartelling door de Romeinen 'Frisii' genoemde stammen, die in de moerasgebieden langs onze kust woonden, waren oorspronkelijk Germaanse stammen.
Als je dat een interessant onderwerp vindt, kan ik je @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social (en hun website) aanbevelen.
Als je dat een interessant onderwerp vindt, kan ik je @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social (en hun website) aanbevelen.
Reposted by Frisia Coast Trail
TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval #NorthFrisia / Interdisciplinary project by #UniMainz, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/torf-a-new-d...
#DFG #Geography #Archaeology
#DFG #Geography #Archaeology
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
TORF, a new DFG-sponsored Research Unit, investigates the drowned coastal landscape of medieval #NorthFrisia / Interdisciplinary project by #UniMainz, @uni-kiel.de, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, ALSH, and NIhK is funded by @dfg.de 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/torf-a-new-d...
#DFG #Geography #Archaeology
#DFG #Geography #Archaeology
Reposted by Frisia Coast Trail
Mal in meinem Fotos gewühlt und diese tolle Aufnahme gefunden. So schaut #Landunter auf #Hallig Gröde von oben betrachtet aus.
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Mal in meinem Fotos gewühlt und diese tolle Aufnahme gefunden. So schaut #Landunter auf #Hallig Gröde von oben betrachtet aus.
New publication. The first female doctor in the Netherlands, born in Franeker, province of Friesland.
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New publication. The first female doctor in the Netherlands, born in Franeker, province of Friesland.
How wars between the Kingdom of England and the Dutch Republic brought about the liberties and freedom of the US in the 17th century, our blog post:
History Is Written by the Victors — a Story of the Credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. They call it a lot of things: Gotham, the Big Apple, the Empire City, Modern Gomorrah, even Baghdad-on-the-Subway. And of course, Times Square proudly calls…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
How wars between the Kingdom of England and the Dutch Republic brought about the liberties and freedom of the US in the 17th century, our blog post:
Reposted by Frisia Coast Trail
Het is zover! Vandaag liep ik als totaal onervaren wandelaar de eerste van 2250 km van de geweldige @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social langs de kustlijn van het oude Friesland. 🧵
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Het is zover! Vandaag liep ik als totaal onervaren wandelaar de eerste van 2250 km van de geweldige @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social langs de kustlijn van het oude Friesland. 🧵
The Frisians as the Charons of the English Channel, a 1,600 years old story:
Rowing Souls of the Dead to Britain — The Ferryman of Solleveld
In 2004, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery at the early medieval burial ground of Solleveld, just south of the city of The Hague: a boat grave. It lies almost exactly two hundred kilometre…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Frisians as the Charons of the English Channel, a 1,600 years old story:
When the two Frisian bastards of the FCT meet in England, we can't help to be remembered of our blog post about the saga recounting the deeds of Hengist and Horsa. See: www.frisiacoasttrail.com/post/frisian...
September 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
When the two Frisian bastards of the FCT meet in England, we can't help to be remembered of our blog post about the saga recounting the deeds of Hengist and Horsa. See: www.frisiacoasttrail.com/post/frisian...
One of the Frisian bastards scouted the trail at Nature Park 't Zwin in Flanders today. Great day! Sea inlet 't Zwin is also the starting point (or terminus) of the www.FrisiaCoastTrail.blog.
September 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
One of the Frisian bastards scouted the trail at Nature Park 't Zwin in Flanders today. Great day! Sea inlet 't Zwin is also the starting point (or terminus) of the www.FrisiaCoastTrail.blog.
How an American play from 1957 inspired Hollywood to bring a couple of Frisian raiders from the Middle Ages onto the stage.
Movie Star Ben-Hur Made Peace With Frisian Raiders
Who does not know the epic movie Ben-Hur, released on the big screen in 1959? A movie in which Hollywood actor and civil rights activist Charlton Heston (1923–2008) played the role of Judah Ben-Hur…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
September 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
How an American play from 1957 inspired Hollywood to bring a couple of Frisian raiders from the Middle Ages onto the stage.
Early medieval Rhine skippers
Late Little Prayers at the Lorelei Rock. Reckless Rhine Skippers in Distress
On the west bank of the mighty River Rhine, halfway between the cities of Koblenz and Mainz, lies the town of Sankt Goar. Named after Saint Goar of Aquitaine, a hermit who retreated here in the six…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
September 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Early medieval Rhine skippers
The Fallward excavations in Land Wursten—a rare window onto the life of the Old Saxons when they started migrating West and changed history
The Deer Hunter of Fallward, and his Throne of the Marsh
Near a terp called Fallward, close to the village of Wremen in the region of Land Wursten, archaeologists uncovered a remarkable site that opens a rare window onto life during the Migration Period …
frisiacoasttrail.blog
September 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Fallward excavations in Land Wursten—a rare window onto the life of the Old Saxons when they started migrating West and changed history
This title speaks for itself:
Frisia, a Viking Graveyard
Hjoggum vér með hjörvi ‘we swung our swords’, as all the stanzas of the twelfth-century Lay of Kraka begin. When reading about the famous deeds of great Viking warriors, not much attent…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
September 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
This title speaks for itself:
How the Vatican tried to restore its church organisation again in the Netherlands in the mid nineteenth century.
A Dutch King Once Yelled: “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 recounted the famous story of the two Frisian kings who travelled to Rome 2,000 years ago to seek an audienc…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
September 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
How the Vatican tried to restore its church organisation again in the Netherlands in the mid nineteenth century.
A history of the Romans at the norther-most fringes of their empire on the Continent
Pagare il Fio. How the Romans Fared in the Wet Woodlands and Salt Marshes
Pagare il fio is Italian for ‘paying the penalty’. More literally, it means ‘paying the fee’. It is an expression the Italian language inherited from the Barbarians from the…
frisiacoasttrail.blog
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
A history of the Romans at the norther-most fringes of their empire on the Continent