Question
In one text, a blind character sneaks out to fulfill his dying wish of throwing silver into the crowd at this place and hearing people fight over it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historical location where a character insults Flosi by offering him a blood-soaked robe, leading Flosi’s men to set fire to the house of the protagonist and his family.
ANSWER: Thingvellir [accept meetings of the Althing or equivalents; accept Lögberg or Law Rock; prompt on Iceland]
[10e] Disputes are taken up at meetings of the Althing throughout one of these medieval Icelandic tales about the Viking Njál (“n’YAHL”).
ANSWER: sagas [accept Njáls saga or Brennu-Njáls saga or Saga of Burnt Njál]
[10m] An Icelandic grammatical treatise calls these people “the arbiters of all matters of rhetoric or diction” as “lawyers of laws.” These court poets incorporated rhyme and alliteration into their poetry, unlike in Eddic tradition.
ANSWER: skalds [accept skaldic poetry]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 24 | 15.00 | 96% | 46% | 8% |
Data
| Stanford A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |