[31] “No nearer”—“don’t come any nearer to the wind.”
[32] “Thou failest”—“you’re slacking.”
[33] “Wartake” may mean “war-tackle,” but what exactly that signifies no one to-day has been able to suggest.
[34] i.e. lay the cloth.
[35] “Pery” means “squall.”
[36] “Thow canst no whery” = “you mustn’t complain”—“you know nothing about these matters.”
[37] Malmsey.
[38] Boiled nor roast.
[39] “My head will be cleft in three”—“my head is splitting.”
[40] “Gere” means “tools.” Lightly constructed cabins were knocked together on these Viking-like ships by the ship’s carpenter to accommodate passengers.