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Hollywood often depicts seafaring people like the vikings as people who used to acclimate to the movement of a ship on the ocean sea. Was there any record of seafaring people that needed to get their "land legs" when leaving a ship after months at sea?

by /u/Rowsdower32 in /r/AskHistorians

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