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Finally drew somethin worth postin \('-' )/

I found an old Vinland Saga ao3 ship statistic from 2024 but it had some restrictions in their measuring criteria and since it's been a while since then I took a look at it myself. Because not every fic is a ship fic and some include multiple ships, I'm just gonna list those with the highest numbers, no fancy graphs or percentages.

Criteria:

• All Vinland Saga fanfics (Manga only (344) + Manga/Anime (1174) + Anime only (171) = 1689 total)

• Ship has 10 or more fics minimum

• only "A/B" canon ship tags

• includes all locked fics & languages

I had to countercheck the numbers because the "tag search->sort by uses" options seemed to give out wrong numbers, not sure how those are counted...

The order of names has no meaning btw, since it's fixed on ao3 anyway.

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So these are the Vinsaga ao3 ship numbers of today (20 march 2026):

1.) Canute x Thorfinn (338)

2.) Askeladd x Thorfinn (332)

3.) Torgrim x Atli (185)

4.) Askeladd x Bjorn (184)

5.) Gudrid x Thorfinn (97)

6.) Einar x Thorfinn (48)

7.) Thorkell x Asgeir (28)

8.) Thorgil x Olmar (24)

9.) Bjorn x Thorfinn (21)

10.) Hild x Gudrid (18)

11.) Thors x Helga (17)

Some good ones just barely missed being mentioned but I had to draw a line and if I went lower I think I would've missed some and then it wouldn't be comparable anymore.

Because Askefinnweek 2026 has ended just recently I had to make a little update for the top three, since the was some change.

So as of today (28 April 2026) the new top three ao3 Vinland Saga ships are:

1.) Askeladd x Thorfinn (363) ↑

2.) Canute x Thorfinn (341) ↓

3.) Askeladd x Bjorn (189) [new]

⚠️ askefinnweek roundup/compilation.

Content warnings:

• gore (mainly 1 panel on page 1, middle of the page)

• vomit (last 2 pages)

• underage drinking and canon typical child abuse/neglect through out

Day 1 » A

Ambition・Aftercare・Asphyxiation

Prompts: Aftercare

Words: 1866

《Askeladd survived and he followed Thorfinn to Vinland. Thorfinn still has nightmares and Askeladd has to deal with it.》

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83053356

We're proudly announcing the date and prompts for the Askefinn Week 2026!

It will be running from April 13 to 19 2026 and the theme of this year is the shipname itself - A.S.K.E.F.I.N.N.

Every day will feature one of the letters with three prompts starting with the respective letter. Additionally you can also use them to come up with your own prompts!

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