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Intervjuar: Men ka du sa som (va) muliheten før å komm’ sæ unna da? Harald Anton Adolfsen: Vi ha’ itj fått løs tampan’, vi på babord sia, fordi der va flammen og der kom røyken ut. Vi va itj kome båtlaus fra’n, for hann hadd sætt att tampan’ sine på babord sia tå oss, hann. Intervjuar: Og viss dere hadd kjørt bære da? Adolfsen: Kjørt bære? Da hadd vi tatt med oss hann òg da.
The interviewer: But what you said about the escape possibility? Harald Anton Adolfsen: We, who were on the aport side, haven’t get loose the hawser ends, because there was the flame and the smoke came therefrom. We weren’t coming away from him (the boat), ’cause he got his hawser ends on the aport side from us. The interviewer: And what if you just took off? Adolfsen: Took off? Then we would take him (the boat) with us (pulled behind our boat).
From bak(“back, behind”) + bord(“bord, side of ship”), i.e. the side you turned your back to when steering the vessel as the steering oar was on starboard side. Calque of Dutchbakboord. First attested in 1691.[1]