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.
In the journal article titled Economic History and Development: Drought and the Sahelian Economics of Niger, Baier discusses the idea of encouraging farmer and herdsmen to return to old ways since the most recent drought destroyed the Sahel economy (Baier 1).