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[gmtaslash]

My calculations so far about distances in Narnia; feel free to niggle and quibble, people!



Miraz's castle to Beaversdam = 1 mile (PC, chapter 4)

Beavers' dam to Stone Table = roughly a day (LWW, chapter 8) [they leave probably around 4.30pm based on the fact that Edmund notes that they started dinner at 3.00pm, then arrive at the Stone Table at sunset the next day, probably around 6pm at the latest given it's winter and the sun sets early. Giving them six hours or so for sleep and for meeting Father Christmas etc, this gives them about 19.5 hrs walking. Lucy's probably the slowest member of the group, so say a pace of 2mph gives us 39 miles from Beavers' dam to Stone Table] [Bridget suggests that notes be made of any and all mentions of rough ground, going slower due to tiredness, etc]

Cair Paravel to Beruna = a day and a bit (PC, chapter 8) [Given that a day's walking is usually about from say 7am to 6 pm; 11 hrs, suggests to me that CP to Beruna is probably 18 hrs. At an adult easy walking pace of about 3 mph, gives us 54 miles]

Beruna to Aslan's How = half a day (PC, chapter 8) [Probably about six hours? At 3mph, probably 18 miles]

Cair Paravel to Glasswater = probably about 8 hours; they had breakfast at 9am, then Trumpkin told his tale, which was a long one, so if we're charitable and say they left at 11am, they were paddling up Glasswater by twilight, which I'm guessing was about 7.30-8pm as it appears to be summer. Rowing speed for a bunch of kids and a dwarf who are none of them used to it is probably around 3 knots, or 3.5mph, which means that Cair Paravel to Glasswater is likely about 28 miles.

Glasswater to Aslan's How = Edmund reckons this would only have taken three hours or so when the Rush was a 'little stream' (PC, chapter 9). Once they'd found the Rush, of course, they went downstream to Beruna (which took probably about four hours, give or take, although the book is a bit vague), and then back upstream (probably a loss of eight hours altogether, because they got back to the fir wood while it was still daylight, then after dinner and some sleep, (if it was dark by the time they went to sleep, then I guess they set off again after Aslan at about eleven o clock that night? And probably reached the How by say 1 am at the latest.) Then there's all the nonsense with Aslan and Trumpkin and then Bacchus etc before anything sensible gets done, but it probably adds up, subtracting delays, to four or five hours from Glasswater across the Rush to Aslan's How. At 3mph this will be 12-15 miles.

Miraz's Camp to Aslan's How = 1 hour (PC, chapter 13).

Comments

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

In my admittedly limited experience, boys who know they like boys, at least these days, tend to end up being about fourteen or fifteen and, ahem, finding out how things work with someone aged around seventeen. So, you know, Edmund's old enough for Caspian, and that's all that matters.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

*smirk* Edmund's almost too old for Caspian in my 'verse... but then, my Telmarines have some very interesting attitudes to teh buttsex...