At 47,800 tons, Viking Sea is a third the size of many of the megaships being rolled out by major cruise lines -- and that's on purpose. It's smaller size allows it to access smaller ports that megaships can't visit. Viking Cruises.
Bairn is Scots, Scottish English, and Northern English for a child. It originated in Old English as bearn, becoming chiefly Scottish circa 1700. A man with his boat and bairns in a calotype print from the 1840s, now in the National Galleries of Scotland.
The children, or bairns, as they were called here, wore neither shoes nor stockings, except a few of the very young ones, and all the arable land was devoted to the culture of oats and turnips. The only thing I grudge is being away all day, leaving you and the bairns, for I ken they're no' very easy to put up with.