![]() He was constantly boastful about his plans, frequently ranted about his successes while they lasted to whatever audience was available, which was usually Shego. He also wears a wide belt and a black collar, both of which are embossed with pale green circles.ĭrakken was a self-categorized "evil megalomaniac" who was fueled by pettiness and jealousy. ĭrakken's primary outfit is a blue double-breasted coat and trousers, with black gloves and boots. It is also known that his skin coloration is somehow tied to his evil, as, when it was removed by the Attitudinator, his skin color returned to a natural color after a gradual process, and, when transferred to Ron, it turned Ron blue until it was removed from him, restoring him to normal, and returned to Drakken, making him blue once again. Shego once teased that his five-year winning streak at pie-eating contests had caused some blueberry "schmutz" to turn his skin blue. Although, from the beginning of a conversation between Drakken and Professor Dementor it is known that it happened on a Tuesday. The reason for Drakken's blue-toned skin is never revealed. Special thanks to Marit Synnøve Vea for contributing with text and knowledge.Drakken is of average height and build with light-blue skin, long black hair tied in a ponytail, a scar under his left eye, and a thick unibrow. ![]() The summer of 2014 Draken Harald Hårfagre made her first ocean going voyage, from Haugesund, Norway, to Liverpool, England and back again. During 20 she has been trimmed and tested in the waters along the Norwegian coastline. In 2012 Draken Harald Hårfagre was launched and the trial sailing began. Old sailing records, purchasing lists, reports, and more. The Saga literature and other sources from the Old Norse literature.įoreign contemporary sources from the Viking Age From there we worked backwards in time to recreate an ocean going Viking ship by using all available sources. We were based in a living Norwegian boat building tradition that has existed since the Viking Age. Usually, replicas of Viking ships are based on interpretations of archaeological material. ![]() This can be crucial for the seaworthiness of the ship. If important details are missing, one is dependent on the archaeologists” interpretation when the pieces of a ship are put together or drawings are made. The original vessel material that is found is often fragmentary and poorly preserved. This small sample hardly represents the best of the Viking ship technology. Thousands of ships were built in the Viking Age, but only a few burial ships and shipwrecks have been found. Yes, she is a viking ship although built in modern times. The dragon’s head protects the ship and her crew along the voyage, and is not mounted until departure from homeport. The ship’s ornamentations are inspired by patterns and figures from Viking ships found in Norway.ĭraken Harald Hårfagre has a traditional dragon’s head and tail and is richly ornamented with patterns found in excavations. The construction is an experimental archaeological research program, and the aim was to recreate a ship with the superb seaworthiness that characterized the ocean going long ships in the Viking Age.Īrchaeological findings of Viking ships show that they were beautifully decorated. Norway’s leading experts in traditional boat building and the square sail were engaged in the development and construction of the ship. She is a seaworthy ship, able to sail the Oceans of the World.Īt a hundred and fourteen feet of crafted oak, twenty-seven feet on the beam, displacing eighty tons, and with a thirty-two hundred square foot sail, this magnificent ship is indeed worthy of a king. ![]() Plank by plank, nail by nail, more than 10 000 of them, the ship was constructed by a band of experienced boat builders, historians, craftsmen and artists.ġ15 feet from stem to stern, 26 feet wide, 260 square meters of silk sail and a 79 feet tall mast made from Douglas fir. Draken Harald Hårfagre is a recreation of what the Vikings would call a “Great Ship”, built with archaeological knowledge of found ships, using old boatbuilding traditions and the legends of Viking ships from the Norse sagas. The Vikings left almost no record of how they built their ships, or how they sailed them. Named after Harald Hårfagre, the king who unified Norway into one kingdom, the great dragon ship came together in the town of Haugesund in Western Norway. In March of 2010, construction began on what would be the largest Viking ship ever built in modern times. The sagas, archaeology and traditional boat building
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