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Painting of Smeerenburg?[edit]

I wouldn't say the painting depicts Smeerenburg per se, but just a whaling station in Spitsbergen in general. Cornelis de Man's 1639 painting appears to have been based on ABR Speeck's 1634 painting of a Danish whaling station in Spitsbergen, which would eliminate the possiblility of it being Smeerenburg. The Danes did have a station within Smeerenburg (which was several stations, not a single one as is often assumed), but the image clearly doesn't depic that station. With that, I'm going to either change the caption or remove the image altogether- although it is quite a nice illustration, so I think I may do the former. Jonas Poole (talk) 04:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a url (http://mitfanoe.dk/Fanoe%20historie/fiskeri/p33.jpg) to view Speeck's painting. As can be clearly seen, it is obvious where de Man's inspiration came from. Jonas Poole (talk) 04:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quite so, and one sees the Danish flag replaced by a Dutch one in the process! Apcbg (talk) 22:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Denmark-Norway[edit]

In this article the whalers are said to be Danish. But Denmark did not actually exist at this epoque. Instead Denmark was a part of Denmark-Norway. So the Danish mentioned here must be the Danish-Norwegian or I do not know what you would call them.--Lena Dyrdal Andersen (talk) 21:36, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Hamlet was always considered Danish, even before Denmark existed...Vincent (talk) 21:25, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]