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Swedish shipowner says Odyssey filmmaker won't pay $6,000 damage bill

The Odyssey Viking ship came back damaged, its Swedish owners say, and a $6,000 repair invoice is unpaid.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 07, 2026
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The Odyssey Viking ship — William Murphy / CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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 o…

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