According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the amulets appear in Viking Age graves, and were presumably placed there because " they were thought to have protective powers ".

" According to Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees, the inscription " seems to begin as a benevolent formulation before abruptly switching to the infliction of distress and misery, presumably upon the recipient of the charm rather than the baleful valkyrie ", and they posit the final line appears " to constitute a rather spiteful kind of charm aimed at securing the love of a woman ".

MacLeod and Mees state that the opening lines of the charm correspond to the Poetic Edda poem Sigrdrífumál, where the valkyrie Sigrdrífa provides runic advice, and that the meaning of the term skag is unclear, but a cognate exists in Helgakviða Hundingsbana I where Sinfjötli accuses Guðmundr of having once been a " skass-valkyrie ".

MacLeod and Mees theorize that " the role of the corpse-choosing valkyries became increasingly confused in later Norse mythology with that of the Norns, the supernatural females responsible for determining human destiny [...].

* MacLeod, Mindy ; Mees, Bernard ( 2006 ).

MacLeod, having already accepted Hibs ' offer, felt he could not go back on his word, so left Blackburn to go back to Scotland.

When MacLeod tells Tessa that she is stronger than Anne, and that if something happened to him she would be fine, Tessa retorts, " You only think so because it suits you.

" Abramowitz further observes, " I think that Joe believes that there is something singular and special about Duncan MacLeod, that there may be a destiny MacLeod has to fulfill, which is even greater than the Watchers '.

However, Kenneth MacLeod had to present Westward Diary in what looked to viewers like almost total darkness, as the union only permitted the house lights to be switched on in the studio.

Then, as well as the flagship evening news programme Reporting Scotland presented by Mary Marquis and Douglas Kynoch with contributions from Renton Laidlaw in Edinburgh and Donny B MacLeod in Aberdeen, there were popular current affairs series like Compass, Checkpoint with Esmond Wright and Magnus Magnusson, Person to Person with Mary Marquis, Current Account, Public Account and Agenda.

* Archibald Prize – Euan MacLeod, Self portrait / head like a hole

According to Paul, Lisa was more like a temptress to MacLeod than was Tessa.

After what he has seen, MacLeod also tells Richie the truth about himself and the others-that he is 400 years old and he, like them, is Immortal.

Connor obviously defeated great Immortals during his life, but the movies did not have time to show it like the series did for Duncan MacLeod, so only seven beheadings are known to take place in the movie timelines.

Panzer says, " This is the time for Richie to leave and kind of find himself, sort of see what it's like, surviving on the outside ," and it is also a hard time for MacLeod ; is he crying, is he sad to see him go, is he a little afraid for him, you know it's like any time you turn a youngster loose in the world, even today's world, it's a pretty scary moment for the parent.

He later became a field Watcher, observing Immortals like Roy Ferrer ( 1971 – 1974 ) and Liza Grant ( 1975 – 1978 ), later being assigned to Duncan MacLeod in 1979.

According to Panzer, the original script featured Horton sending Lisa to kill MacLeod on the latter's barge.

* In an episode of Highlander: The Series, " The Wrath of Kali ", Duncan MacLeod deals with immortal Kamir ( played by Indian actor Kabir Bedi ), last of the Thuggee.

Laurel MacLeod, writing for the CWA in an article titled " School Prayer And Religious Liberty: A Constitutional Perspective ", suggests that the banning of prayer in public schools can be seen as a breach of the First Amendment.

Despite a feeling of hurt and rejection over the " Govan Case ", George MacLeod remained one of the highest profile figures in the Church of Scotland.

Albert Alexander MacLeod, ( 1902-1970 ), widely known as A. A. MacLeod and familiarly as " Alex ", was a prominent member of the Communist Party of Canada and, later, of its legal group the Labor-Progressive Party.

* Winner: " The Summer Isles ", Ian R. MacLeod ( Asimov's Science Fiction, October / November 1998 )

* " The Master Miller's Tale ", Ian R. MacLeod ( F & SF May 2007 )

In 2000, its local newscast, " First Edition ", was cancelled and replaced with Canada Now, anchored in Halifax by Norma Lee MacLeod.

He has produced numerous recordings, and won the 1983 Juno Award for " Producer of the Year ", with Brian MacLeod.

MacLeod, at a press conference, saw a mongrel dog approach: " I think he is the only friend I have got left ", he said, stretching out a hand.

* D. Peter MacLeod, Notes on " The Treaty of Kahnawake, 1760 ", read to Ottawa Legal History Group, Ottawa, 3 December, 1992

Glenelg Amateur Football Club is known to locals by their nickname of " The Duffers ", were re-formed in 2011 by Grant MacLeod.

In the eleventh episode, " Family Tree ", Duncan's father and Chieftain of Clan MacLeod, Ian MacLeod, states that the newborn Duncan was a foundling given to his wife Mary to replace the stillborn son she had delivered, and raised to be his successor.

In " The Gathering ", Duncan and Connor MacLeod explain how Connor, who had undergone a similar ordeal in 1536, found Duncan in 1625, told him about his immortality and became his mentor.

When the series begins, Tessa and MacLeod have been in a relationship for twelve years and are the proprietors of an antiques store, " MacLeod and Noel's Antiques ", in the fictional city of Seacouver, Washington, United States.

In " For Evil's Sake ", she tells a guilt-ridden MacLeod that " You may be Immortal, but you're not omnipotent ...

When MacLeod revealed his immortality to Tessa in " Counterfeit Part Two ", she can show compassion instead of the fear or disgust he expects: " I was just thinking how lonely you must be.

" Tessa is a very empathic and understanding character, for example, in " Saving Grace ", she is jealous of MacLeod's former lover Grace ; however, when MacLeod assures her that he no longer loves Grace, her response is simply that "... that's all that need to be said.

In " Innocent Man ", when MacLeod refuses to take her where an evil Immortal is, she says, " I know why you don't want me there.

For example, in " For Tomorrow We Die ", MacLeod calls her " contrary by nature " Tessa parks her car without regard to interdictions, can drive a speedboat, is a poor chess player and dislikes war.

The audience became angrier still when in the following episode, " Eye For An Eye ", MacLeod made love to Immortal Annie Devlin.

William Brydges was arrested on December 16, 1985 in connection with the murder of Mrs. MacLeod, which took place on March 29, 1979.

This still happens, in some communities where a surname is particularly common, for example on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, many residents have the family name MacLeod ( son of Lewis ) and so may still be known by a surname symbolising their occupation such as ' Kevin the post ' and ' Kevin Handbag '

However, there have been several cases where a descendant through the maternal line has changed their surname in order to claim the chiefship of a clan, such as the late chief of the Clan MacLeod who was born John Wolridge-Gordon and changed his name to the maiden name of his maternal grandmother in order to claim the chiefship of the MacLeods.

in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Windsor, where he studied under Alistair MacLeod.

In 1933, MacLeod resigned from The World Tomorrow and the couple returned to Nova Scotia where they became active in the labour movement and campaigned for J. B. McLachlan, a militant union leader and Communist was running as a " labour " candidate for the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

MacLeod received a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence.

During the series finale, Duncan MacLeod was thrown into another reality where he had never been born.

Duncan MacLeod and Tessa Noel have been living in a city in the Pacific North West for several years, where they run an antiques store.

MacLeod follows his friends to Paris, where he and Tessa decide to stay, living on Duncan's barge ; Tessa takes up a post as a curator, Duncan takes up the role of a kept man and Richie that of a fish out of water, in his role as a kept man, Duncan does the shopping, but as he is returning to the barge one morning, he sees a clown dressed as a mime kill an elderly man, (" For Evil's Sake ").

Using her as a lure, he entices MacLeod to his home, where he has a lightless room in which he hunts and kills Immortals, using a nightscope to see his prey, a la " Silence Of The Lambs ".

After telling MacLeod where they were, he went in to try and rescue Joe, unaware that what he had seen was an illusion.

" MacLeod actually finds Xavier and Horton where Dawson told him they were.

" Later, Dawson prevents Horton from shooting MacLeod in the cemetery where Tessa is buried.