Meaning of sjødåp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. event or a ritual making a person, who goes through it, into a real fisherman or sailor (in other people's eyes)
   masculine, uncountable
2. a ritual, when a newborn child being taken on a boat into the sea got to drink sea water from an empty snailshell, with purpose to get along with the sea spirit when this child grows up as a fisherman or sailor
   masculine, uncountable