#askefinn

thorfinn: I will be the prison that keeps your ashes from reaching the ocean askeladd: I've seen men beg for less

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.