They knew ways to get what they wanted, and always had some in a side place for captains and their friends at lunchings.

Algiz, one of the oldest runes, associated with sedge grass, and Thor, and Heimdall, and a number of other things depending on who you asked and which runic alphabet you used. Algiz had a universal meaning: protection.

The context for generators and relations is that of a free group on the set of generators, and the relations indicate passage to a quotient of this free group by a normal subgroup.

A merchant is carrying a large stock;  a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.