Connections between Copenhagen and Gottorp In the summer of 1654 four Greenlanders were captured in the Godthåb fjord and shipped to Bergen. After first having their portraits painted, they were passed on to Copenhagen. Although the male Greenlander died en route, the three women continued the journey to Flensburg, where the Danish king and court were now in residence - there being plague at the time in Copenhagen.. The 4 Greenlanders. Engraving from Museum Regium 1696 From there they were taken to Schleswig, where Adam Olearius, the Duke's learned and well-travelled librarian studied them, describing and portraying them in the catalogue of the Gottorp Kunstkammer. In 1655 Duke Friedrich presented a clock to Frederik III, probably the one we know as 'the great Radeloff clock'. To previous page The Founding of Frederik III's Kunstkammer To next page The Kunstkammer at Copenhagen Castle