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.
(raÊt) n. 1. a defeat attended with disorderly flight: to put an army to rout. 2. any overwhelming defeat. 3. a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons. 4. Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot.