Talk:Ariel/@comment-36205124-20180812140332/@comment-1672596-20180812183114

Disney Wiki doesn't count stuff like Once Upon a Time as canon. Stuff like the animated TV series and the DTV sequels are more like the Expanded Universe materials than, say, Star Wars: Infinities, to use Star Wars lexicon, meaning they're likely canon unless directly contradicting the original film in a major way (it also helps that the TV series was in fact created by the same guys who originally created the film). Anyways, that still doesn't change that the actual film does in fact have a very brief implication that Eric's kingdom was at least within Scandinavia, if not within Denmark specifically (Eric says something about Grimsby still being on about his failed marriage arrangement with the Princess of Flowerhaven during the birthday party/storm which had been recent enough that Grimsby had his statue repurposed as a birthday gift due to the failed wedding plans. The naming convention, as I pointed out, matches the naming conventions of Scandinavian countries, and the distance between Italy and Scandinavia alone would not have allowed for it to be as recent as their conversation implied.).

I'll give you the Alsace bit regarding Beauty and the Beast, though. Then again, I can name at least one other aspect from Beauty and the Beast that at least conflicted with the intended time period/setting: The opening song had a couple of the market shoppers specifically refer to items' length in terms of Inches and Yards, even though France today, let alone back then, didn't use that measurement system (Today, they use the Metric system. Back then, they used hands and feet as measurement). And don't get me started on the Eiffel Tower's cameo long before it was even built.