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Re: Legend of the Flying Dutchman
What I always understood is that the earliest books or scripts published/known always refer to a Dutch captain. Sometimes with a name. It seems that one of these early writers lived in Zeeland (Terneuzen) for some time and picked it up there as local folklore. The published names are almost in every case "fake" or not traceable as "real" man. Sometimes the name Bernard Fokke is used, which is a real captain of around 1678....it is funny if you read Dutch and English wikipedia how much different it is....
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