King Völsung - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This ruler’s wife was responsible for his birth as she had dropped an apple of fertility onto his father’s laugh at Freyja’s behest. For 10 points each:

[10m] What son of Rerir and grandson of Odin constructed a great hall centered around the great tree Barnstokkr? Sinfjotli resists the pain of clothes being sewn into his skin, proving himself to be of this ruler’s lineage in his eponymous saga.

ANSWER: King Völsung [accept the Völsunga Saga or the Saga of the Völsungs]

[10e] Völsung’s future bride drops the apple on Rerir’s lap while in the guise of this bird. Two of these birds named for thought and memory act as messengers and spies for Odin.

ANSWER: crows [or ravens; accept corvids; accept kráka; or hrafn]

[10h] Later in the saga, this daughter of King Völsung avenges her father’s death at her husband’s hands by sleeping with her brother Sigmund and birthing Sinfjotli. After avenging her family, this woman walks into a burning hall to die with her husband.

ANSWER: Signy [or Signe; or Sieglinde]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
South Central	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
UK	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	McGill A	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Simon Fraser	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Waterloo A	0	10	0	10
Carleton University	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Western C	Toronto F	10	10	0	20
Guelph	UBC A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	Western A	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan State	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
VCU	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
Virginia	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Wake Forest	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
William and Mary	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Northwestern D	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Brown	Bowdoin A	10	10	0	20
MIT	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Washington A	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Washington B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Bruin	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	WashU A	0	10	0	10
Louisville A	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Mississipi State	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Yale	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
John Jay	Johns Hopkins A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Vassar	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Penn State	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
RIT	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Cardiff	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Montpellier	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	10	0	10