Hilbert Vinkenoog (History with)

New research suggests young parents more likely to speak Frisian with their children than in previous generations 🔥🔥🔥

Lesson 2: Little Kingdoms, on Wednesday!

So I recently picked up on this in audiobook readings. Some do “foreign” sources very suitably and convincingly, others… Less so.

It was a pleasure to present at the Australian Early Medieval Conference hosted by @jaema.bsky.social on the subject of Vikings in Old Frisian texts yesterday. I presented via Zoom, but at least there was one individual who heard it live… #Vikings #Medieval #Frisia

A photograph showing the front face of find TDB 580, a gilded silver Carolingian-stype sword-strap mount from the site of the Viking Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.

A photograph showing the front face of find TDB 1633, a gilded and silver-plated Carolingian-stype sword-strap mount made of copper alloy. This was also recovered from the site of the Viking Great Army camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire.

Carrying on our theme of weaponry-related artefacts, we're going to look at these two Carolingian sword-belt mounts for our Viking Camps #FindsFriday today.

People have been known to duck and run for cover when I start talking about strap fittings... so I promise I'll contain my enthusiasm! /1

In terms of the imitation solidi that match types found in Frisia I believe Simon Coupland now sees these as more likely to have been made by Danes rather than Frisians.

I think the Continental Germanic names on coins from the Danelaw suggest that at least some artisans came from northern Francia rather than Danes having been active there, at least.

The pottery too I suspect would be made by Continentals rather than Danes.

I'm very excited to be working with @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social on the reception of Radbod in metal music. Stay tuned for more coming to the blog soon!

Looking forward to it!

Happy to say that @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social and I have just submitted two smashing Frisian-focused panels to #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social - fingers crossed!

If we make it, I expect you ALL to be there in 2026!

YouTube video by History With Hilbert Will Cornwall be the Next Nation of the United Kingdom?

Could Cornwall join Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England as nations of the UK?

Dydh dha warn meur ras!

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Mûske is as intrigued to learn about the identity of the Early Medieval Warni as I am.

A view of Amsterdam, by Jacob van Ruisdael painted between 1665-1670.

Duran Duran??

The Festival of Archaeology is *free* to attend. Come one, come all!

What better way to spend a weekend than out in the Northumbrian landscape, immersed in top-notch archaeology?!

YouTube video by History With Hilbert I've written a book. Well, we've written a book.

VERY excited to announce together with @alexharvv.bsky.social that we’ve written/are writing a book on the Age of the North Sea - the edges of the Mare Frisicum on the build up to the Viking Age!

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Never change professor Cunk, never change ;)

Krêftstêf - POWER-STAFF - should absolutely be the Frisian translation of power bank.

For #FindsFriday the unique and remarkable Khazar coin inscribed "Moses is God's messenger", from the huge Spillings hoard found on Gotland in 1999. The coin (dated c. 837) is the only physical proof that Khazars converted to Judaism. From the Gotlands Museum book "The Spillings Hoard"

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Biology textbook? No, an Old Frisian manuscript.

Fan ús moaie Dokkum oant ús moaie Snits...
Fryslân. Wat in plak. Wat in minsken.

A 'Call for Papers' for an Early Medieval Frisian-focused panel (or panels) set for IMC 2026. The text reads; Spread across the southern North Sea, the Frisians were the unsung middlemen of the Early Middle Ages: a people whose travels knew no borders, whose trade raised masses of cash, and whose dabbles in piracy drew quite a lot of unwanted attention. They were pivotal to the spread of currency and goods across northern Europe between the fifth and eighth centuries. Despite their multifaceted status, and some recent publications, the Frisians still remain understudied in comparison to their better-known cousins in England, France, and Scandinavia. Even separating these peoples from one another is tricky, as ‘Frisian’ may not be the most reliable descriptor it first appears. These questions, and others, continue to frame this area of study to this day and continue to push conversations forward. In an effort to showcase the breadth and depth of Frisian study, this session seeks papers from any scholar with an interest in the early medieval North Sea (350 - 800 CE). We would be delighted to receive proposals across the fields of archaeology, linguistics, runic studies, numismatics, folkloric studies, and textual and poetic analysis. After all, the ‘Frisians’, whoever they were, can only be caught and analysed via inter-disciplinary pincers. These papers will be framed as a wholesale holistic overview of Early Medieval Frisia, from its people, to its networks, to its place in the pre-Christian cosmos. In-keeping with this year’s IMC strand of Temporalities, we are especially encouraging papers which dabble in new approaches to the passage of time and the reading of poetic or heroic histories. Interested? Great! We’d love to hear from you via an abstract of 150 - 250 words, emailed to: historywithhilbert@gmail.com and alexharvv@gmail.com before the 15th of August 2025.

#IMC26 #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

ATTENTION ALL NORTH SEA DWELLERS

I and @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social are looking for fellow Frisian-obsessed archaeologists, linguists, historians, what-have-you, to present at IMC 2026 in Leeds. We want YOU to wow us with emergent research: details below

I see what you did there

Wie hiel moai om ris by de Fryske Akademy werom te kommen, perfoarst ek as Nelleke IJssennagger oan it wurd is oer de Wytsingetiid yn Frisia! Soks haw ik gauris heard, mar eltse kear binne der wer nije fynsten en nije ynformaasje yn it ljocht kaam!

Low German, Latin, and Old Frisian manuscripts from Frisia.

Success! And with a now-signed copy of An Introduction to Old Frisian we go to work with the translations!

The Old Frisian translations have begun!

Frisians in Anglo-Saxon England - a topic close to my heart!