Comments on: Remembering king Redbad

By: M.

M. — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:42:04 +0000

I am glad I got one of the rebellious Frisian names. Many Frisians didn’t want new Christian names, and they had to change their names, so they created wild names. Ours is Hellenga…. daughter of/son of Hell. Yes; Redbad/Radbod deserves a movie. I will keep my eyes out. Also, I am looking for more of the history of the place. : )

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By: Zaragil

Zaragil — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:46:40 +0000

Oh yes. There was also a song called “Radbods Doop” (if I spelled this right) by an old legendary Dutch band Countess too, recorded quite a while ago – we haven’t heard of it before but the man contacted us on MySpace, uploaded it for us to hear it and we talked about it, exchanged a few impressions, became friends etc. Also, another band made a similar song a year or so ago, can’t remember the name right now…

Anyhow, only our singer is Dutch and I don’t know what is Boomsma’s status or reputation over there. I did a Google image search and on his own page he doesn’t look that bad, on some others… not quite impressive. But since he hasn’t even been approached for the part, who knows, maybe there’s someone better around the corner. We’ll have to wait and see

Cheers!

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:33:24 +0000

Great news! I’m not really sure if Arie Boomsma would be my first choice to play Redbad… But we’ll see, perhaps they will find a Dutch/Frisian “Mel Gibson” that can play the king in a believable way. They still have some time before the shooting starts.

And happily surprised there are people out there who still do remember Redbad, as it turns out the king is still an inspiration for artists today!

By: Zaragil

Zaragil — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:22:27 +0000

Redbad isn’t forgotten – my band, Ophidian Forest, recorded a concept album about him and named it “Redbad” (you can hear some tracks on http://www.myspace.com/ophidianforest) and apparently in two years a movie will be filmed about him in The Netherlands (http://www.leeuwardercourant.nl/nieuws/cultuur/article5172355.ece/Arie+Boomsma+mag+koning+Redbad+spelen) – here’s the translation:

Leeuwarden – Director Steven de Jong is working on the heroic epos about medieval king Redbad. Producer Klaas de Jong considers the leading role for “someone like Arie Boomsma”, but he hasn’t been approached for this as yet. “The guy just has the right face for it. In the Netherlands we simply don’t have anyone like Mel Gibson”.

The shooting will begin in two years time. Producer de Jong is estimating the costs between 4 and 5M EU. A script has already been written by Lars Boom. Its focus lies on the duality between Christians and heathens.

Heathen regards,

Zaragil

By: Hicham

Hicham — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:29:33 +0000

It’s a very nice story, Sjeltur. Interesting also how he became a king at the age of 31 years old according to the dates placed in the post . If only we’ve a ‘Time Machine’ we would have returned back and became “kings” ourselves

By: vange

vange — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:29:04 +0000

Was King Redbad a naughty ginger?!?!

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:58:00 +0000

Yes, the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and Charlemagne, so roughly between 500 and 800, is one we don’t know much about. We know way more about the times of the Roman Empire before than this time. Sometimes the term “Dark Ages” is used for the whole of the Middle Ages, but some use it especially for this time, because what happened during this time is somewhat dark. There is another king in this time that’s legendary and more well known: king Arthur. But we know for sure that king Redbad did live and there are some historical facts about him, some historians think that king Arthur never existed.

By: Chinaren

Chinaren — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:06:19 +0000

Very interesting. I’d never heard of this country or king before. Isn’t it amazing such a large place can be almost lost in history?

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:03:31 +0000

I’m happy to hear you liked the story.

About the “doomsday”-stories, it has been a long time I wrote a story about that. Last year the financial world did almost go to hell, and governments rushed to come up with panic stoppers to put a lid on the crisis. There is certainly more to tell about all that, and I will hopefully, other subjects I’ve been busy with caught my attention somewhat more lately.