I have read both that the Vikings never cooked onboard ships and also that
they did cook over the ballast which was probably sloshing with water at the
bottom so fairly safe if the weather wasn't so bad the sail would catch
fire.
Grace

> kom Bjarni skipi sínu á Eyrar

More literally: "Bjarni brought his ship to Eyrar". 'koma' is used
here as a transitive verb meaning "to bring", the thing brought being
dative.

> og létu skaut horfa á land
> and turned away from the ladn [I don't really get this]

Lit. "and made the corner of the sail point towards the land". Gordon:
"sail[ed] along the coast".

Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa