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.
(tÊÉrn) n. 1. a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter. 2. any of various similar machines, as for mixing beverages. v.t. 3. to agitate in order to make into butter: to churn cream. 4. to make (butter) by the agitation of cream. 5. to shake or agitate: The storm churned the sea. 6. (of a stockbroker) to trade (a customer's securities) excessively in order to earn more in commissions.