This ruler appointed the Scottish explorer John Cunningham governor of Finnmark, where he presided over a series of witch trials on the island of Vardø (“var-duh”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this king of Denmark-Norway, who founded a namesake city that was renamed Oslo in 1925. This man led Denmark into the Thirty Years’ War, but withdrew in the Treaty of Lübeck.
ANSWER: Christian IV [prompt on Christian]
[10e] Cunningham commanded a ship in the first of three annual expeditions that Christian IV sent to this island. The expeditions aimed to locate this island’s lost East Settlement, which had been founded by Erik the Red.
ANSWER: Greenland [or Kalaallit Nunaat]
[10m] Christian IV also sent Cunningham to tax foreign participants in this industry on Spitsbergen. The Slaying of the Spaniards was an Icelandic massacre of participants in this industry, one of whose main products was ambergris (“AM-ber-griss”).
ANSWER: whaling [or whale fishing or whale hunting; prompt on fishing]
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