Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill
Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill Ellsworth Toohey 10:00 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 The Odyssey Viking ship — William Murphy / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) The Glad av Gillberga is a Swedish replica of a warship pulled from Denmark's Roskilde fjord and dated to around 1040. In nearly 30 years it has crossed the North Sea and sailed to Canada. Universal borrowed it for six months for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, where it played one of the escort ships in Odysseus's flotilla — the Greek boats are thought to have resembled Nordic longships.
- ▪Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill Ellsworth Toohey 10:00 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 The Odyssey Viking ship — William Murphy / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) The Glad av Gillberga is a Swedish replica of a wars
- ▪In nearly 30 years it has crossed the North Sea and sailed to Canada.
- ▪Universal borrowed it for six months for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, where it played one of the escort ships in Odysseus's flotilla — the Greek boats are thought to have resembled Nordic longships.
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Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill Ellsworth Toohey 10:00 am Thu Aug 6, 2026 The Odyssey Viking ship — William Murphy / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) The Glad av Gillberga is a Swedish replica of a warship pulled from Denmark's Roskilde fjord and dated to around 1040. In nearly 30 years it has crossed the North Sea and sailed to Canada. Universal borrowed it for six months for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, where it played one of the escort ships in Odysseus's flotilla — the Greek boats are thought to have resembled Nordic longships. Its owners say it came back with damage to the stern and the mast, the Guardian reports.
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