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.
An', to tell the truth, sir, I'm no muckle mair nor a bairn in that respeck mysel'. I haena seen the bairn, replied David, in repressed perturbation. I was not old, in heartâit pattered like a bairn's steps to every glimpse and sentence of her. You forget I was but a bairn when we romped in the hay-dash.