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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Citation:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''Heisa, heisa vorsa, vorsa vou, vou''</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Language:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">perhaps Old English or Norse</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">References:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''[[The Thirteen-Gun Salute]]'', page 28</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Meaning:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">a chant from a sea-shanty</td>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 70%;">Notes:</p>
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The words may be meaningless — a mid-16th century version, heard by a lowland Scot being sung on an English vessel, runs: ''heisa, heisa; vorsa, vorsa; vou, vou''; one long pull, more power, young blood, more mud... However, the words also bear some similarity to colloquial Italian, ''issa, issa; forza, forza; su, su'', which means heave, heave; come on, come on; up, up.

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