Gemeine deutsche Meile was defined as 7.420 km, but there were a wealth of variants: Anhalt – 7532 m Baden – 8889 m before 1810, 8944 m before 1871, 8000 m thereafter Böhmen – 7498 m Brabant – 5000 m Bayern – 7415 m, connected to a Equatorial degree as 25406 Bavarian feet. Hamburg (Prussia) – In 1816, king Frederick William III of Prussia adopted the Danish mile at 7532 m, or 24000 Prussian feet. Also known as Landmeile. Hessen-Kassel – 9206 m Lippe-Detmold – 9264 m Oldenburg – 9894 m Osnabrück – 5160 m Pfalz – 4630 m Rheinland – 4119 m Sachsen – Postmeile, 7500 m. Also 9062 m or 32000 feet in Dresden Schleswig-Holstein – 8803 m Westfalen – 11100 m, but also 9250 m Vienna – 7586 m Wiesbaden – 1000 m Württemberg – 7449 m Reichsmeile – 'Imperial / (The) Realm's mile', new mile when the metric system was introduced, 7.5 km. Prohibited by law in 1908. Schainos – Uncertain use, between 10 and 12 km, Stadion – Uncertain use Norwegian system Before 1541, there were no common definition for length measures in Norway, and local variants flourished. In 1541, an alen in Denmark and Norway was defined by law to be the Sjælland alen. Subsequently, the alen was defined by law as 2 Rhine feet from 1683. From 1824, the basic unit was defined as a fot being derived from astronomy as the length of a one-second pendulum times at a latitude of 45°. The metric system was introduced in 1887. Length skrupel – Scruple, linje or approx. 0.18 mm. linje – Line, tomme or approx. 2.18 mm tomme – Thumb (inch), fot, approx. 2.61 cm. This unit was commonly used for measuring timber until the 1970s. Nowadays, the word refers invariably to the Imperial inch, 2.54 cm. kvarter – Quarter, alen. fot – Foot, alen. From 1824, 31.374 cm. alen – Forearm, 62.748 cm from 1824, 62.75 cm from 1683, 63.26 cm from 1541. Before that, local variants. favn – Fathom (pl. favner), 1.882 m. stang – Rod, 5 alen or 3.1375 m lås – 28.2 m steinkast – Stone's throw, perhaps 25 favner, used to this day as a very approximate measure. fjerdingsvei – Quarter mile, alt. fjerding, mil, i.e. 2.82375 km. rast –Lit. "rest", the old name of the mil. A suitable distance between rests when walking. Believed to be approx.