(!!! Google translation, will be corrected !!!) This story has been preserved in several versions, adapted to the length and area measures used by different nations.
Without an adjective adjective usually means subtenor | G (approx. 200 mm), bass elbow | F (approx. 450 mm), step, foot and rod baritone | Es (approx. 750, 1500 and 3000 mm), subtenor string | G (approx. 20 m), soft | sharply baritone | E (approx. 30 m).
When the Lord of the North declared himself the supreme ruler of the whole earth, Wide took the form of a dwarf only four feet high, so that his (relative military | baritone | As) step was two-thirds of the standard (military | baritone | As) step. saying, "I came from the other side of the world to bow to you and ask you to leave as much land around my house as I can walk three steps." When the ruler had promised him with a smile, Wide had grown sixty times, so that his step was now one (E) string, or meridian second. And the ruler did not stop smiling, for the land measured even with such large steps was not much larger than four mornings.
And Wide had increased sixty times for the second time, so that his step was now one nautical | bass | F mile, or latitudal minute. And the ruler no longer smiled, for the land of such large steps corresponded to four baronies.
And Wide had increased sixty times for the third time, so his step | gradus was now one latitudal degree | grad. And the ruler frowned, for the land of such a large step corresponded to the four kingdoms.
And Wide had grown sixty times for the fourth time, so that his step now was one latitudal sextant, and in three steps he crossed the entire Earth from one pole to another.
When the Lord of the North declared himself the supreme ruler of the whole earth, Wide took the form of a halfling only three feet high, so that his (relative subtenor | G) step was half the standard (subtenor | G) step and came before the ruler, saying: “I came from the other side of the world to bow down to thee and to ask you to leave to me as much land around my house as I can walk three steps.” When the ruler promised him with a smile, Wide had increased 0o100 × | 64 ×, so that his step was now one subtenor | G string, or latitudal subtenor | G second. And the ruler did not stop smiling, for the land measured even with such large steps was not much larger than 4 mornings.
And Wide has increased for the second time 0o100 × | 64 ×, so that his step was now one subtenor | G miles long, or meridian subtenor | G minutes. And the ruler no longer smiled, for the land of such large steps corresponded to four baronies.
And Wide has increased for the third time 0o100 × | 64 ×, so his step now has the length of one meridian subtenor | G degree. And the ruler frowned, for the land of such a large step corresponded to four kingdoms.
And Wide has increased for the fourth time 0o100 × | 64 ×, so that his step now has the length of one latitudal sextant, and in three steps he has crossed the entire Earth from one pole to another.
(Google translation, shall be corrected) Hexapotamians use segesimal system, while Optaquans octal system. Therefore in the Optaquan version, Wide increases every sixty-four times and its original size is only three feet, so his step initially is half the length of the standard subtenor G step. The Optaquan Mile has 1024 footsteps of eight cubits. Hexapotamians measure distance traveled to military miles that have a thousand baritone As footsteps of five feet, but they also use nautical miles that have a thousand fathoms or bass F footsteps of six feet.
Hexapotamian system Optaquan system sextant 6667.920 km 6667.936 727 04 km degree 111.132 km 104.186 511 36 km minute = mile F 1852.2 m G 1627.914 24 m second = rope E 30.87 m G 25.436 16 m third = elbow Es 514.5 mm G 397.44 mm grain of barley 8.575 mm wheat 6.21 mm mile As 1543.5 m G 1627.914 24 m foot As 1.5435 m G 1.589 76 m step As 771.75 mm G 794.88 mm
When the most powerful archangel declared himself the supreme ruler of the whole of the Earth, Wide stepped forward, saying: "I have come to ask you for as many lands as I can measure with one (subbaryton | Es) passus in width and two passi in length." When the ruler had promised him with a smile, Wide had increased tenfold, so his (relative mollsubbaritone | Es) passus now had a length of one (Es) chain one hundred links long by one (Es). And the ruler did not stop smiling because the plot of land, even with such large steps, corresponded to only two recreational gardens².
And Wide grew ten times for the second time, so his foot now had the length of a mollsubbaritone | Es stadium. And the ruler smiled less, for the land measured in such large steps corresponded to a fifth of the mollsubbaritone | Es field.
And Wide had increased ten times for the third time, so that his foot now was one baritone | Es mile. And the ruler had stopped completely smiling, for the land area measured in such large steps corresponded to a barony.
And Wide had increased ten times for the fourth time, so that his foot now was ten mollsubbaritone|Es miles long. And the ruler frowned a little, as the land area measured by such large steps corresponded to a county.
And Wide had increased tenfold for the fifth time, so that his foot was now a hundred of mollsubbaritone|Es miles long.
And Wide had increased ten times for the sixth time, so that his foot was now a thousand mollsubbaritone|Es miles long.
And for the seventh time, Wide increased tenfold, measuring the width from pole to pole with the first step; and with the next two steps he measured the length of almost the entire equator, leaving the ruler with only a forty-mile belt. Translator's notes
(1) Latin distinguishes gradus or simple step or degree; and passus, or two-step, which we translate with the archaic step.
(2) Even during the times of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the maximum size of a recreational garden was set at 400 m² (and the maximum size of a recreational cottage at 40 m²).
(3) The memorial value of the equatorial radius of the earth is facilitated by the mnemonic aid of "save yourself, ass", ie six thousand three hundred and seventy-eight kilometers. The equatorial circumference of the Earth is 2 × 3,141592653 * 6378 km = 40074,155881668 km. The meter was defined as one tenth of a meridian quadrant, ie the meridian circumference of the earth is 40000 km and the difference between the equatorial and meridian circumference is 74,155881668 The nautical mile is the meridian minute, that is, the sixtieth degree of the meridian degree, which is the sixtieth of the meridian sextant, ie 74.155881668 km / (40000/6/60/60) = 40.044417610072 nautical miles. meter is slightly less than the actual value. A little more accurate was used to define the Hexapotamian|bass|F miles This gives a length of 1852.2 m (exactly), while by the original definition of a meter the nautical mile would be 1851.851 m, which was rounded to 1852 meters in 1929 at the International Hydrographic Conference.
When one of the gods declared himself the supreme ruler of the whole world, Vishnu took the form of a dwarf, came before the ruler, and asked him for land as large as three steps. When the ruler had promised him, Vishnu had grown larger and crossed the sky with the first step, crossed the earth with the second step and crossed the underworld with the third.
(1) The name of the Vishnu of India, as well as the Germanic Wíðarr, is derived from the same Indo-European root as in the English word wide and the German word weit, wide.
(2) There are several versions in the Indian texts, from the harshest "... and by the third step he put the ruler into the underworld" through the more conciliatory "... to the version without the underworld, replacing that stepping into the underworld of formulations "and by the third step he had nowhere to step, so the ruler offered him his forehead respectfully".
Jaan Puhvel: Comparative Mythology
4. Vedic India
(p. 75) ... In Rgveda, Vishnu is continually glorified as "the one who has taken three steps" and "walking widely" for taking the three most important initial steps to measure the gods and humans and secure the habitable universe. ...
... Vishnu has a remarkable onomastic and mythical parallel in Nordic mythology. It is the Germanic god Víðarr, whose very name is an incentive 'further, wide!' (Víðarr = vitaram; cf. chapter 11), just as Vishnu can be reasonably interpreted as 'Wide' (beside the Vishnu, the Sour Cherry 'apart, different'; compare eg dhrshna with the Greek thrasys 'bold'). ----