 Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is Captain Nemo, though Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is set in the second half of the nineteenth century.He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in the Ayn Rand novel "Atlas Shrugged", which is spoofed in the chronicles as ""Telemachus Sneezed"".Like Danneskjold, Hagbard participates in the black market, exploiting and resisting governments, and both characters have Norwegian roots.