The world’s largest viking ship has arrived in North America after crossing the North Atlantic Ocean on a journey from its homeport in Haugesund, Norway.

The Viking ship, named Draken Harald Hårfagre, set sail from Norway with its roughly 32 crew members in late April and made stops in Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, Canada, earlier than making its means by way of the Saint Lawrence Seaway to Toronto for the Tall Ships Challenge Great Lakes 2016 pageant this weekend.

Future stops for the Viking ship embrace Chicago, Green Bay and Duluth, earlier than heading by way of the New York canals to U.S. east coast with stops in New York City and at last Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut in October.

Draken Harald Hårfagre is definitely not a duplicate, slightly it’s a real-life Viking ship constructed based mostly historical Norwegian boat constructing strategies dug up from the historical past books and archaeological findings. Construction was accomplished in 2014 and it’s now heralded because the world’s largest Viking ship ever in-built fashionable instances.