World Progress

“A hundred and fifty thousand hauled home. The chests do not close any more.”

150,002

“Forty thousand slain. The woods have gone quiet around Eilif, and very little out there still tries.”

40,010 · about every soul alive in Iceland, year 1000

“Five million wounds. This stopped being war a while ago. Now it is weather.”

211,952,046 · about 333 Yagluths, start to finish

“Six hundred and sixty-six. Eilif has stopped writing down the names and started writing down the number.”

666

“A quarter of the world drawn onto the map. Three parts of it are still dark.”

25%

“A million points of harm, dealt by hand. It has stopped sounding like a number.”

1,000,014 · about 1,666 trolls of hurt

“A thousand hours lived here. Six weeks of somebody's life, and nobody is asking for it back.”

1,000 h · forty days and nights straight

“Five thousand works shaped, tempered and carried out the door. Eilif's smiths have earned their age.”

5,016

“Three hundred and fifty kilometers under sail. Open water has stopped frightening anyone.”

350.0 km · Skagen to Kristiansand, there and back

“A thousand kilometers on foot. The crew has worn a road into a world that never had one.”

1000.6 km · Oslo to the Arctic Circle, on foot

“Sixty thousand pieces raised. Whatever this started out as, it is a stronghold now.”

60,011 · a fortress the size of Jomsborg

“Fifteen thousand felled. Every one of them thought it would go otherwise.”

15,056 · the whole host at Stamford Bridge, 1066

“A thousand things made by hand. The forge has not been cold in a long while.”

1,104 · three things made every day for a year

“Five thousand slain. What was sown in iron has come up red.”

5,071 · the whole population of Viking-age Dublin

“Fifteen thousand pieces set true, and not a plank of it wasted.”

15,011 · a stave church, timber for timber

“Five hundred hours under Eilif's sky. Long enough that the world has started remembering us.”

500 h · three straight weeks, day and night

“Three hundred falls, and the hall still fills at dusk. Death has stopped being an argument.”

300 · the Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC

“Two hundred and fifty kilometers walked and run. Boots, not sails.”

250.0 km · eight days of hard marching

“A tenth of the world charted. The crew has stopped hugging the coast.”

10%

“Twenty-five hundred pieces raised. There is a longhouse standing where there was only forest.”

2,506 · about one full longhouse

“Forty-two kilometers on foot, between all of us. Pheidippides had the grace to die at the end of his.”

42.3 km · one full marathon, to the meter

“Twenty-five thousand goods gathered in. The stores are full, and nobody goes hungry this winter.”

28,419 · about twenty chests, packed to the lid

“A hundred thousand wounds dealt. Every swing since the first day ashore is in that number.”

100,003 · about 166 trolls of hurt

“One part in a hundred of the world charted. The first mile is the one that counts.”

1%

“One hundred deaths. A whole village has died here, and walked back in through the door.”

100 · the whole of a small Norse village

“A hundred hours lived in this world together. The oars are worn smooth.”

100 h · four days and nights without sleep

“A thousand foes have fallen to Eilif's warband. The skalds are going to need a longer song.”

1,000 · about thirty longship crews

“Twenty-five trips to Odin's table, and every one of them ended with somebody rowing back for seconds.”

25 · twelve rowing benches and a steersman

next: “The Ten Thousand” · at 10000.0 km · a quarter of the way around the world · 99%

next: “Master-Forged” · at 20,000 · fifty-five a day, every day, for a year · 92%

next: “The Norway Run” · at 1750.0 km · Lindesnes to the North Cape, the length of Norway · 87%

then: Vinland

next: “Half the World” · at 50% · half a world roughly the size of Malta · 65%

next: “A King's Hoard” · at 1,000,000 · over eight hundred chests, every one full · 15%

next: “The First Hundred Fish” · at 100 · 0%

then: The Fisher-Kings