Völuspá - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

Odin learns of the world’s creation, Ragnarök, and its aftermath in this poem. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this first and most famous poem from the Poetic Edda where Odin learns lore from a seeress.

ANSWER: Völuspá (“VOH-loos-pah”) [accept Voluspo]

[10e] In the Völuspá (“VOH-loos-pah”), the völva tells Odin that she knows that this body part of his is in the Well of Mimir. Like the Cyclopes (“sye-KLOE-peez”), Odin only has one of these body parts.

ANSWER: eyes

[10h] The Völuspà (“VOH-loos-pah”) concludes with the völva (“VOHL-vah”) seeing this creature carrying corpses, then sinking. Dronke’s translation of that stanza calls this creature “Malice Striker.”

ANSWER: Níðhöggr (“NEETH-hahg-er”) [accept Nidhogg]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Carnegie Mellon	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Minnesota	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame C	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Purdue	WUSTL	0	10	0	10
UF A	UCF	0	10	10	20
UF C	UF B	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Brandeis	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	MIT	0	10	0	10
Tufts	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
BU	Yale A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Columbia	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Princeton	0	10	0	10
JHU B	Maryland	0	10	0	10
5	Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co	10	10	10	30
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors	Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest.	0	10	0	10
We jopping	Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas	10	10	0	20
bruh	TOAD	10	10	0	20
TAMU	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Houston	0	10	0	10
See it	Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	0	10	0	10
Gressenheller A	Oxford School for Quizness	0	10	0	10
The Crying of Team 49	LSE	0	10	0	10
3HK1MM	Limp Chriskit	0	10	10	20
Say it	Sorted	10	10	0	20
Duke A	RIT A	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
UNC A	UNC C	0	10	0	10