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Used in the context of general equities. Conjunction that denotes trade execution /indication, usually during a pre-opening look. "Looks 6 on 6000 shares at opening." See: for/at.

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| Meols Developed around Birkenhead Road and Shaws Drive, the name is from Old Norse and means sandhills, or the sand dune.

The stories behind our place names

It comes from the Old English graf and burh, adapted to graf and byr in Old Norse.

How did Anfield and Everton get their names? Plus 54 other Merseyside places; An A to Z of the hidden history of Merseyside districts and wards

Using insights from Old Norse and other Germanic languages and from theoretical linguistics, I argue that the meanings of the word unfaege and its cognates as well as the word's prenominal position suggest a relationship between being brave and being an unfaegene eorl.

Saving the "undoomed man" in Beowulf (572b-573)

Critique: In "The Last Conference: A Pragmatist Saga", author Arild Pedersen clearly draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo (Norway) and his familiarity with old Norse saga traditions to craft a complex and engaging novel set in contemporary times.

The Last Conference

This is a formal and functional study of the three distinct meters of Old Norse eddic poetry.

The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation

Chapter 6 "Old Norse religion" considers the relevance of a shamanistic cultural analysis of the archaeological material and highlights some of the changes in the visual arts that coincide with the Christianization of the region.

Animals and Humans: Recurrent Symbiosis in Archaeology and Old Norse Religion

Firstly, it seeks to address the question of whether the Orkney or Shetland system shows any sign of being a relict of Old Norse grammar, which has a fully developed gender morphology in nouns and adjectives.

'I'll cross dat brig whin I come til him': grammatical gender in the Orkney and Shetland dialects of Scots

In Wirral, Meols was originally melr, meaning sandbank, while the name West Kirby comes from kirkja-byr, old Norse for "settlement with the church".

Reconstruction of Viking longship to sail to Wirral on maiden voyage

The second aler is the verb haler and is derived from Old Norse. Although hala is only sparsely attested in the Norse written record, it could well have been a preferred term in the Old Danish carried to the future Normandy.

Anglo-Norman Beiter in the medieval nautical vocabulary

"I think it's going to be [in] English - the English that would have been spoken back then - and Old Norse. Whatever the ninth century had to offer.

Mel Gibson to make film on Viking raids

An Old Norse Translation of TwentyOne Old French Lais.

Bibliographia normanno-arturica. Textos y estudios sobre la traduccion y adaptacion de la literatura arturica en la escandinavia medieval

Duane Reade is featuring all seven Vaska (vaska is Old Norse for "wash") laundry SKUs, including a nonchlorine fabric softener and spot remover, all of which are biodegradable, hypoallergenic and gray water safe.