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 believe the word means something like " supernatural sending ", and that this points to a connection to the Ragnhild Tregagás charm, where a valkyrie is also " sent forth ".

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 ).

During the shootout, according to MacLeod, Mughrabi raised the Palestinian flag and declared the establishment of a Palestinian state.

He was selected by Ally MacLeod in the Scotland squad for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, scoring in the opening 3 – 1 defeat against Peru.

Chris Murphy of Sloan introduced Pierce and MacLeod, and later lent equipment to the fledgling band and booked them for opening slots at Sloan concerts.

The Lopez Opening or MacLeod Attack is a chess opening characterized by the moves

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.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, Edgar MacLeod, former president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, states that " while the cost of the registry had become an embarrassment, the program works and provides a valuable service.

Other founders and key contributors to creation of the network included project manager and training coordinator Brian Wright-McLeod, Christopher Spence and Andre Morriseau ( production and programming ), John Matthews and Mark MacLeod ( licencing ), Robert Templeton and J. Robert Wood ( corporate funding ), Elaine Bomberry, David Deleary, Sherman Maness, Nicole Robertson, Minnie Two Shoes and Doug Bingley ( strategic advice ).

In the end, it was the advice of Methos that put Duncan MacLeod back into The Game once more.

Such by-names can be descriptive as in Mary MacDonald's case just mentioned, patronymic after the name or by-name of the father such as Màiri Dhòmhnaill meaning Donald's Mary, occupational designated by the person's job such as Màiri a ' Ghobha meaning Mary of the Blacksmith, residential for the name of the place they live or come from such as Mòrag a ' Ghlinne meaning Morag of / from the Glen, local origin using an adjective deriving from someone's place of origin such as Dòmhnall Hearach meaning Donald of / from Harris or an amalgamation of these types such as Calum Dubh a ' Chlachain meaning Black-haired Calum of / from Clachan whose formal Gaelic name might simply be Calum MacLeòid ( Malcolm MacLeod ).

He was soon forgotten, and his situation prevented him from participating in the Gathering of 1985, thus meaning The Game was still on, and MacLeod was once again Immortal.

Ken MacLeod referred to Argic in his novel The Star Fraction as a slang term for " the lowest layer of paranoid drivel that infested the Cable, spun out by degenerate, bug-ridden, knee-jerk auto-post programs.

MacLeod and Salsberg were re-elected in the 1945 provincial election and 1948 Ontario provincial election but lost his seat in the 1951 election-Salsberg remained as the sole LPP MPP for a term until his defeat in the following election.

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

In December 2010, MacLeod is scheduled to appear as a guest narrator with the Florida Orchestra and Master Chorale of Tampa Bay for three concerts.

This prediction has attracted debate and criticism from the AI research community, and some of its more notable members, such as Kevin Warwick, Bill Joy, Ken MacLeod, Ray Kurzweil, Hans Moravec, and Roger Penrose, have voiced their opinions on whether or not this future is likely.

Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

Born in Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, MacLeod is one of a number of Immortals.

Thus it is assumed that the property is a universal which is distinct from the particular individual who has the property ( MacLeod & Rubenstein, 2006, § 1b ).

If the same concept is correctly and non-arbitrarily applied to two individuals, there must be some resemblance or shared property between the two individuals that justifies their falling under the same concept and that is just the metaphysical problem that universals were brought in to address, the starting-point of the whole problem ( MacLeod & Rubenstein, 2006, § 3d ).

It is not clear if Picatinny took the concept from this Canadian weapon and asked Norman MacLeod to develop it ; or if he came up with the idea independently and presented it to them.

Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.

There is a purported unicorn horn in the castle of the chief of the Clan MacLeod in Scotland, which has been identified as that of an eland.

Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944, with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

* The Night Sessions, a 2008 novel by Ken MacLeod, is set in this year.

Alistair MacLeod, OC ( born July 20, 1936 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan ) is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.

His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.

Adrian Paul Hewett ( born 29 May 1959 ), better known as Adrian Paul, is an actor best known for his role on the television series Highlander: The Series as Duncan MacLeod.

It is known that the island was ruled by the MacLeods from 1518 when Calum Garbh, younger son of the MacLeod Chief of Lewis was granted title.

Elizabeth MacLeod is a Canadian author.

Ian R. MacLeod ( born 1956 ) is a British science fiction and fantasy writer.