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So his now-famous opera was * not * originally The Flying Dutchman, but really a Flying Norwegian!

He later changed the title to " Der Fligente Hollander " ( The Flying Dutchman ), making the character conform better to earlier traditions.

This was no simple, easy task: Wagner had to change laboriously, by hand, every one of the innumerable Norwegian references in his libretto to Dutchman.