Origin
In art
The image of the "Flying Dutchman" was very popular in the art of the XIX-XX centuries.
- Opera 'The Flying Dutchman', op. Fitzball, music by Rodwell () (1826, Adelphi Theatre).
- The Flying Dutchman is one of the first operas by Richard Wagner, which was released in Dresden in 1843. The music for the opera was written very quickly, after Wagner's trip with his wife Minna on a ship to England, during which they got into a storm, which gave food to the composer's imagination.
- "Ghost ship" ( English) (1839) - a novel by the English writer Frederick Marryat, telling about the wanderings of Philip van der Decken, the son of the captain of a cursed ship.
- The popular British ballad "The Carpenter" The House Carpenter ) tells the story of a young woman who is seduced by a young man (the devil in the form of a young man) with rich promises, persuading her to leave with him. The girl decides to leave her carpenter husband and children, boards his ship, but after a few weeks of sailing, he goes to the bottom. In some versions of the ballad, the devil himself sinks his ship, and in some it crashes during a storm. This is believed to be due to the fact that the ships on board of which the unfaithful spouses travel are destined for a tragic fate, and the captain-devil is identified with the captain of the Flying Dutchman.
- N. Gumilyov's poem "" from the cycle "Captains", IV.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) are the second and third installments of the Walt Disney Pictures series of action films about pirates. The captain is Davy Jones, a character from another marine legend - about Davy Jones' chest
- Appears in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants.
- The composition Seemann by the German rock band Rammstein tells a story based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman.
- The Flying Dutchman is a Moscow rock band from 1992-1997.
- In Leonid Platov's novel The Secret Fairway, the Flying Dutchman is a secret submarine that performs tasks of particular importance for the needs of the Third Reich. Also in the novel is one of the versions of the legend in literary processing. In particular, at the end of the legend it is said that there is a certain word, if you pronounce it when meeting with the "Flying Dutchman", the curse will be destroyed forever.
- "Flying Dutchman" - a song based on the verses of Boris Barkas, performed in the 70s in the rock underground environment, in particular, by the Russian rock group Time Machine from the album Unpublished I, released in 1996.
- "Flying Dutchman", feature film, Fora-film - Yalta-film, 1990
- "The Flying Dutchman" (1993) - a musical piece for guitar by composer V. Kozlov.
- "The Flying Dutchman" is a song by the Russian power metal band NeverLie.
- The Flying Dutchman is a 1995 film by Dutch director Jos Stelling.
- The Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship in the One Piece manga and anime. The captain is a representative of the race of fishmen Van Der Decken IX, a descendant of the first captain of the legendary ship.
- "The Legend of the Flying Dutchman" book by S. Sakharnov 1995
- The Flying Dutchman (The Dutch Wife, 2002) is a book by Canadian author Eric McCormack.
- Mentioned as a terrible sea legend in the story "Captain Duke" by Alexander Green.
- In the book "Two from the Flying Dutchman" by writer Brian Jakes, one of the variations of the legend of the Flying Dutchman is presented. The story unfolds around her.
- The novel by Anatoly Kudryavitsky "The Flying Dutchman" (2012) gives a new version of the legend, where the captain loses the dispute between Death and Death While Living, and the latter gets it, on which the subsequent narrative about Russian life in the 70s of the 20th century is based.
see also
- " Mary Celeste"- Another common name for ghost ships.
- Corsairs: City of Lost Ships is a computer role-playing game in which the player is given the opportunity to remove the curse from the Flying Dutchman.
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Synonyms:FLYING DUTCHMAN. FREQUENTLY JOKE.
1. About a constantly traveling, wandering person, a wanderer. 2. About a restless, restless, constantly fussing person. The turnover is tracing paper with it. der fliegende Hollander. It goes back to the medieval legend about the captain, who swore in a storm to go around the cape blocking the way, even if it cost him his life and lasted forever. For his pride, he was punished by fate: the ghost of the captain and his ghostly ship have been rushing around the sea forever since then. It is considered bad luck for sailors to see him on their way. In German and in other modern European languages, the expression became popular thanks to R. Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman.
Handbook of Phraseology. 2012
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densely, fractionally, every minute, hourly, often, many times, non-singly, repeatedly, often, minutely, often, rapidly, speedily, for hours, often, ... - VOLATILE in the dictionary of Synonyms of the Russian language:
fleeting, fast, evaporating, short, volatile, instantaneous, fleeting, unstable, highly volatile, transient, ... - DUTCHMAN in the dictionary of Synonyms of the Russian language:
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adv. Corresponds to the value. with adj.: ... - VOLATILE in the New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language Efremova:
adj. 1) Able to fly, rush in the air. 2) trans. Able to move quickly, change location. 3) Quickly passing, short-term, transient (about ... - DUTCHMAN in the New explanatory and derivational dictionary of the Russian language Efremova:
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flying, flying; flying, flying, flying. 1. Able to fly, rush in the air. The moon illuminates the flying snow. Pushkin. Flying sand. Flying smoke. … - DUTCHMAN in the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language Ushakov:
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The initial part of compound words, introducing the meanings of the words: frequent, often (often looped, often ribbed, often stepped, often jet and ... - OFTEN in the Explanatory Dictionary of Efremova:
often adv. Corresponds to the value. with adj.: ... - VOLATILE in the Explanatory Dictionary of Efremova:
flying adj. 1) Able to fly, rush in the air. 2) trans. Able to move quickly, change location. 3) Fast passing, short-term, transient ... - DUTCHMAN in the Explanatory Dictionary of Efremova:
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The initial part of compound words, introducing the meaning of words: frequent, often (often looped, often ribbed, often stepped, often jet and ... - OFTEN in the New Dictionary of the Russian Language Efremova:
adv. qualities. 1. Being close to each other (about homogeneous objects, parts of something). ott. Differing in the density of the constituent parts. 2. Fast, ... - VOLATILE in the New Dictionary of the Russian Language Efremova:
adj. 1. Able to fly, rush in the air. 2. trans. Able to move quickly, change location. 3. Quickly passing, short-term, transient (about ... - DUTCHMAN in the New Dictionary of the Russian Language Efremova:
m. see Dutch ... - OFTEN...
The initial part of compound words, introducing the meaning of the word: frequent I (often looped "spruce, often ribbed" pure, often "enchaty", often "cut", etc.) ... - OFTEN in the Big Modern Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language:
I adv. qualities. 1. Being close to each other (about homogeneous objects, parts of something). 2. Differing in density ... - VOLATILE in the Big Modern Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language:
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Flying Dutchman"(Dutch. De Vliegende Hollander, eng. The Flying Dutchman) - the legendary sailing ghost ship, which cannot land on the shore and is doomed to sail the seas forever. Usually people observe such a ship from afar, sometimes surrounded by a luminous halo. According to legend, when the Flying Dutchman meets with another ship, its crew tries to send messages to the shore for people who are no longer alive. In maritime beliefs, meeting with the "Flying Dutchman" was considered a bad omen.
Origin
Legend has it that in the 1700s, the Dutch captain Philip van der Decken (or in some versions Van Straaten) was returning from the East Indies and carrying a young couple on board. The captain liked the girl; he killed her betrothed, and made her an offer to become his wife, but the girl jumped overboard.
Other versions of the legend
- Van der Decken vowed to sell his soul to the devil if he could pass the cape unscathed and not run into the rocks. However, in the contract, he did not specify that this should be done only once, and therefore he was doomed to eternal wanderings.
- Due to strong storms, the ship could not go around Cape Horn for a long time (according to another version, the Cape of Good Hope). The crew rebelled, asking the skipper to turn back. But an angry Van Straaten responded by blaspheming and declaring that he would storm Cape Horn even if he had to sail until the second coming. In response to such blasphemy, a terrible voice was heard from the sky: “So be it - swim!”.
- The crew of a Dutch merchant ship fell ill with a terrible disease. Out of fear that the disease might be carried ashore, no port accepted the ship. A ship with sailors who died from illness, lack of water and food still roams the seas and oceans.
- One of the versions tells about Captain Falkenburg, who was doomed to wander the North Sea until the day of the Last Judgment, playing dice with the devil for his own soul.
- The crew of the Flying Dutchman was in such a hurry to get home that they did not come to the aid of another sinking ship, for which they were cursed.
Possible explanation
One of the possible explanations, as well as the appearance of the name, is associated with the phenomenon of fata morgana, since the mirage is always visible above the surface of the water.
It is also possible that the luminous halo is St. Elmo's fires. For the sailors, their appearance promised hope for success, and in times of danger - for salvation.
Fata morgana of the ships.jpg
This image shows how the outlines of the two ships change under the influence of the Fata Morgana. The four photographs in the right column are of the first ship, and the four photographs in the left column are of the second.
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A chain of changing mirages.
There is also a version that yellow fever played a role in the origin of the legend. Transmitted by mosquitoes that bred in containers of food water, this disease was quite capable of wiping out an entire ship. Meeting with such a ghost ship was really life-threatening: hungry mosquitoes immediately attacked living sailors and transmitted the infection to them.
In art
In fiction, the legend has been presented in many variations. In 1839, the novel by the English writer Frederick Marryat "Ghost Ship" was published. (English)Russian, telling about the wanderings of Philip van der Decken, the son of the captain of the damned ship. The Flying Dutchman is dedicated to Nikolai Gumilyov's poem "" from the cycle "Captains", IV, published in 1909. The Flying Dutchman is mentioned in Alexander Green's short story "Captain Duke".
As an allusion, the expression has been used more than once in cinema. The name "Flying Dutchman" was worn by such films as the film by Vladimir Vardunas, filmed at the Yalta film studio "Fora-Film" in 1990, and the film by the Dutch director Jos Stelling, released in 1995.
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Notes
see also
- " Mary Celeste"- Another common name for ghost ships.
- Corsairs: City of Lost Ships is a computer role-playing game in which the player is given the opportunity to remove the curse from the Flying Dutchman.
An excerpt characterizing the Flying Dutchman
Natasha was going to the first big ball in her life. She got up that day at 8 o'clock in the morning and was in feverish anxiety and activity all day long. All her strength, from the very morning, was focused on ensuring that they all: she, mother, Sonya were dressed in the best possible way. Sonya and the countess vouched for her completely. The countess was supposed to be wearing a masaka velvet dress, they were wearing two white smoky dresses on pink, silk covers with roses in the corsage. The hair had to be combed a la grecque [in Greek].Everything essential had already been done: the legs, arms, neck, ears were already especially carefully, according to the ballroom, washed, perfumed and powdered; shod already were silk, fishnet stockings and white satin shoes with bows; the hair was almost finished. Sonya finished dressing, the countess too; but Natasha, who worked for everyone, fell behind. She was still sitting in front of the mirror in a peignoir draped over her thin shoulders. Sonya, already dressed, stood in the middle of the room and, pressing painfully with her little finger, pinned the last ribbon that squealed under the pin.
“Not like that, not like that, Sonya,” said Natasha, turning her head from her hairdo and grabbing her hair with her hands, which the maid who held them did not have time to let go. - Not so bow, come here. Sonya sat down. Natasha cut the ribbon differently.
“Excuse me, young lady, you can’t do that,” said the maid holding Natasha’s hair.
- Oh, my God, well after! That's it, Sonya.
- Are you coming soon? - I heard the voice of the countess, - it's already ten now.
- Now. - Are you ready, mom?
- Just pin the current.
“Don’t do it without me,” Natasha shouted: “you won’t be able to!”
- Yeah, ten.
It was decided to be at the ball at half past ten, and Natasha still had to get dressed and stop by the Tauride Garden.
Having finished her hair, Natasha, in a short skirt, from under which ballroom shoes were visible, and in her mother's blouse, ran up to Sonya, examined her and then ran to her mother. Turning her head, she pinned the current, and, barely having time to kiss her gray hair, she again ran to the girls who were hemming her skirt.
The case was behind Natasha's skirt, which was too long; it was hemmed by two girls, hastily biting the threads. A third, with pins in her lips and teeth, ran from the countess to Sonya; the fourth held the entire smoky dress on a high hand.
- Mavrusha, rather, dove!
- Give me a thimble from there, young lady.
– Will it be soon? - said the count, entering from behind the door. “Here are the spirits. Peronskaya was already waiting.
“It’s ready, young lady,” said the maid, lifting a hemmed smoky dress with two fingers and blowing and shaking something, expressing with this gesture the awareness of the airiness and purity of what she was holding.
Natasha began to put on a dress.
“Now, now, don’t go, papa,” she shouted to her father, who opened the door, still from under the haze of a skirt that covered her entire face. Sonya closed the door. A minute later, the count was let in. He was in a blue tailcoat, stockings and shoes, perfumed and pomaded.
- Oh, dad, you're so good, lovely! - said Natasha, standing in the middle of the room and straightening the folds of smoke.
“Excuse me, young lady, excuse me,” the girl said, kneeling, pulling at her dress and turning the pins from one side of her mouth to the other.
- Your will! - Sonya cried out with despair in her voice, looking at Natasha's dress, - your will, again long!
Natasha stepped aside to look around in the dressing-glass. The dress was long.
“By God, madam, nothing is long,” said Mavrusha, who was crawling along the floor after the young lady.
“Well, it’s a long time, so we’ll sweep it, we’ll sweep it in a minute,” said the resolute Dunyasha, taking out a needle from a handkerchief on her chest and again set to work on the floor.
At that moment, shyly, with quiet steps, the countess entered in her toque and velvet dress.
- Wow! my beauty! shouted the Count, “better than all of you!” He wanted to hug her, but she pulled away, blushing, so as not to cringe.
“Mom, more on the side of the current,” Natasha said. - I'll cut it, and rushed forward, and the girls who were hemming, who did not have time to rush after her, tore off a piece of smoke.
- My God! What is it? I don't blame her...
“Nothing, I notice, you won’t see anything,” said Dunyasha.
- Beauty, my darling! - said the nanny who came in from behind the door. - And Sonyushka, well, beauties! ...
At a quarter past eleven we finally got into the carriages and drove off. But still it was necessary to stop by the Tauride Garden.
Peronskaya was already ready. Despite her old age and ugliness, exactly the same thing happened with her as with the Rostovs, although not with such haste (for her it was a habitual thing), but her old, ugly body was also perfumed, washed, powdered, also carefully washed behind the ears. , and even, and just like at the Rostovs, the old maid enthusiastically admired the outfit of her mistress when she went into the living room in a yellow dress with a cipher. Peronskaya praised the Rostovs' toilets.
The Rostovs praised her taste and dress, and, taking care of their hair and dresses, at eleven o'clock they got into the carriages and drove off.
Natasha had not had a moment of freedom since the morning of that day, and had never had time to think about what lay ahead of her.
In the damp, cold air, in the cramped and incomplete darkness of the swaying carriage, for the first time she vividly imagined what awaited her there, at the ball, in the illuminated halls - music, flowers, dances, sovereign, all the brilliant youth of St. Petersburg. What awaited her was so wonderful that she did not even believe that it would be: it was so inconsistent with the impression of cold, crowdedness and darkness of the carriage. She understood everything that awaited her only when, having walked along the red cloth of the entrance, she entered the hallway, took off her fur coat and walked beside Sonya in front of her mother between the flowers along the illuminated stairs. Only then did she remember how she had to behave at the ball and tried to adopt that majestic manner that she considered necessary for a girl at the ball. But fortunately for her, she felt that her eyes were running wide: she could not see anything clearly, her pulse beat a hundred times a minute, and the blood began to beat at her heart. She could not adopt the manner that would have made her ridiculous, and she walked, dying from excitement and trying with all her might only to hide it. And this was the very manner that most of all went to her. In front and behind them, talking in the same low voice and also in ball gowns, the guests entered. The mirrors on the stairs reflected ladies in white, blue, pink dresses, with diamonds and pearls on their open arms and necks.
Natasha looked into the mirrors and in the reflection she could not distinguish herself from others. Everything was mixed in one brilliant procession. At the entrance to the first hall, a uniform rumble of voices, steps, greetings - deafened Natasha; the light and brilliance blinded her even more. The host and hostess, who had been standing at the front door for half an hour already and saying the same words to those who came in: “charme de vous voir,” [in admiration that I see you] also met the Rostovs and Peronskaya.
Two girls in white dresses, with identical roses in their black hair, sat down in the same way, but the hostess involuntarily fixed her gaze longer on thin Natasha. She looked at her, and she smiled at her in particular, in addition to her master's smile. Looking at her, the hostess remembered, perhaps, her golden, irrevocable girlish time, and her first ball. The owner also looked after Natasha and asked the count, who is his daughter?
- Charmante! [Charming!] – he said, kissing the tips of his fingers.
Guests were standing in the hall, crowding at the front door, waiting for the sovereign. The Countess placed herself in the front row of this crowd. Natasha heard and felt that several voices asked about her and looked at her. She realized that those who paid attention to her liked her, and this observation calmed her somewhat.
“There are people like us, there are worse than us,” she thought.
Peronskaya called the countess the most significant persons who were at the ball.
“This is a Dutch envoy, you see, gray-haired,” Peronskaya said, pointing to an old man with silver gray curly, abundant hair, surrounded by ladies, whom he made laugh at something.
“And here she is, the Queen of Petersburg, Countess Bezukhaya,” she said, pointing to Helen entering.
- How good! Will not yield to Marya Antonovna; see how both young and old follow her. And good, and smart ... They say the prince ... crazy about her. But these two, although not good, are even more surrounded.
She pointed to a lady passing through the hall with a very ugly daughter.
“This is a millionaire bride,” said Peronskaya. And here are the grooms.
“This is Bezukhova’s brother, Anatole Kuragin,” she said, pointing to the handsome cavalry guard, who walked past them, looking somewhere from the height of his raised head over the ladies. - How good! is not it? They say they will marry him to this rich woman. .And your sousin, Drubetskoy, is also very entangled. They say millions. “Well, it’s the French envoy himself,” she answered about Caulaincourt when asked by the countess who it was. “Look like some kind of king. And yet the French are very, very nice. There is no mile for society. And here she is! No, everything is better than all our Marya Antonovna! And how simply dressed. Charm! “And this one, fat, with glasses, is a worldwide freemason,” said Peronskaya, pointing to Bezukhov. - With his wife, then put him next to him: then that jester of peas!
Flying Dutchman
Flying Dutchman
The expression is based on a Dutch legend about a sailor who, in a strong storm, swore at all costs to go around the cape that lay on his way, even if it took him an eternity. Heaven heard him and punished him for his pride: this sailor was doomed to forever wander the seas on his ship, and nowhere and never land on the shore.
Probably, this legend was born in the era of great geographical discoveries, and the expedition of the Portuguese captain Vasco da Gama (1469-1524), who was the first European in 1497 to be able to round the Cape of Good Hope (southern tip of Africa) served as a historical outline for it.
The legend gained wide popularity thanks to the German poet Heinrich Heine, who used it in his work (1830). In 1843, the German composer Richard Wagner wrote the opera The Flying Dutchman on the same subject. . Allegorically: about fidget travelers (jokingly ironic).
Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M.: "Lokid-Press". Vadim Serov. 2003 .
Flying Dutchman
Dutch legend has preserved the story of a sailor who swore in a strong storm to go around the cape that blocked his path, even if it took him an eternity. For his pride, he was doomed to forever rush on a ship on a raging sea, never touching the shore. This legend, obviously, arose in the age of great discoveries. It is possible that the expedition of Vasco de Gama (1469-1524), who rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, was its historical basis. In the 17th century this legend was dated to several Dutch captains, which is reflected in its name. Having a great oral distribution, the legend was first written down only in 1830 and immediately gave rise to a great fiction (H. Heine, 1834; F. Marryat, 1839; A.E. Brachvogel, 1871, etc.). The musical adaptation of the plot belongs to R. Wagner (1843) (R. Engert. Die Sage vom Fliegenden Hollander, 1927). The expression "Flying Dutchman" refers to restless people - "flyers" - as well as to constant wanderers.
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- "Flying Dutchman". Painting by A. P. Ryder (c. 1896) “The Flying Dutchman” (Dutch. De Vliegende Hollander, Eng. The Flying Dutchman) is a legendary ghost sailing ship that cannot land on the shore and is doomed to forever surf the seas. Usually ... ... Wikipedia
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- "FLYING DUTCHMAN", USSR, YALTA FILM/FORA FILM, 1991, color, 85 min. satirical comedy. On board the decommissioned ship, there is a cozy restaurant under the romantic name "Flying Dutchman". Once on a soft summer evening, someone's ... ... Cinema Encyclopedia
FLYING DUTCHMAN, according to medieval legend, a ghost ship doomed to never land; it was widely believed among sailors that a meeting with him portends death at sea. The legend served as the basis for the plot of R. Wagner's opera ... ... encyclopedic Dictionary
- (The flying Dutchman) an old legend according to which the captain of a Dutch ship, Van Straaten, was condemned to eternal wandering on the seas, never touching the shore. In a 17th century costume L. G., leaning against the mast of his ship, rushes through the seas, ... ... Marine Dictionary
Ghost, ghost ship Dictionary of Russian synonyms. flying Dutchman n., number of synonyms: 4 ghost ship (2) ... Synonym dictionary
1) according to medieval legend, a ghost ship, doomed to never land on the shore; it was widely believed among the sailors that a meeting with him portends death at sea. 2) An Olympic-class dinghy yacht, a crew of 2 people; since 1960 in ... ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary
Flying Dutchman- a legendary image of a Dutch sailor, common in legends, who was condemned to eternal wandering on the seas, and meeting with whom was considered a misfortune. The Flying Dutchman is usually called a ship that was wrecked, but not sunk, but ... ... Marine Biographical Dictionary
This term has other meanings, see Flying Dutchman (meanings). "Flying Dutchman". Painting by A.P. Ryder (c. 1896) ... Wikipedia
FLYING DUTCHMAN- 1. According to European medieval legends, the captain, forever wandering with his ship across the seas; it is also sometimes referred to as a wrecked vessel sailing without a crew. According to one, the most common legend, “The Flying Dutchman… … Marine encyclopedic reference book
