Exeter Book - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

The speaker of a poem included in this codex describes “[T]he citadels crumbled” and “the work of giants ruined” in a poem that focuses on a “well-crafted ancient-work.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this codex of Old English poems including “The Seafarer.” “Master artisans” lie buried for “a hundred generations” in “The Ruin,” a poem from this codex.

ANSWER: Exeter Book

[10e] “The Ruin” belongs to this genre of Old English poems. “The Wife’s Lament” and “The Husband’s Message,” both of which are in the Exeter Book, are other examples of these poetic laments for the dead.

ANSWER: elegy [or elegies]

[10m] Old English words used in “The Ruin,” including enta and orþonc (“or-thonc”), inspired character and place names used by this author. This author likened Beowulf to an elegy in the essay “The Monsters and the Critics.”

ANSWER: J. R. R. Tolkien [or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	86%	71%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	57%	71%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	88%	50%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	19.00	70%	80%	40%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford M	0	10	10	20
Stanford L	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
UChicago D	Miami	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Purdue D	SIUE A	0	0	0	0
Indiana B	UIUC A	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	UIUC B	0	10	10	20
WashU B	UIUC C	0	10	10	20
UIUC D	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	10	10	20
CWRU D	Ohio State A	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
Michigan State B	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C	Pitt A	0	10	0	10
Ole Miss	Central Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
McGill E	Colorado College	0	10	0	10
Texas B	NYU B	0	10	10	20
WUSTL A	Oregon State	0	10	10	20
Alberta	SFU	0	0	10	10
UBC B	UBC A	0	10	10	20
UW A	UW B	0	10	10	20
Arkansas	Mississippi State	0	0	0	0
Vassar B	Missouri	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Texas C	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech B	Florida State University A	0	10	10	20
UF A	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UCF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
UF C	Florida Tech A	0	10	10	20
UF D	UF F	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Bristol A	0	0	0	0
Cambridge C	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Vanderbilt	0	0	10	10
Manchester	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	LSE A	0	0	0	0
Oxford B	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	CWRU B	10	10	10	30