Norwegian Viking ship featured in Nolan’s The Odyssey

The Norwegian Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre appears in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey, as reported by Dagbladet.

The 35-metre vessel departed Kopervik on Friday for a multi-day voyage to Oslo, with arrival at Honnørbrygga scheduled for 13:00 on Wednesday, 15 July. It will remain docked at Sukkerbiten through July, open to the public.

Built in Haugesund and homeported in Kopervik, Draken Harald Hårfagre is described as the world’s largest operational Viking ship. It is crewed by professional sailors and international volunteers. In 2016, it crossed the Atlantic via the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland to North America, retracing a presumed Viking route. For this voyage, it received the Leif Erikson Exploration History Award.

The film’s producers selected Draken to depict Odysseus’s ship in the adaptation of Homer’s epic. The Odyssey stars Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong’o, and Jon Bernthal. It premieres in cinemas on 17 July.

Sigurd Aase, the ship’s owner, called its inclusion in the film “enormous recognition” for those who built, sailed, and maintained it over the years.