Question
A woman gives birth to several noseless daughters after her former husband tears off her nose in a work by this author that provided a term for “werewolf” in French. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this medieval author, who probably worked in the court of King Henry II. This author wrote several tales inspired by the oral traditions of Brittany, such as Lanval.
ANSWER: Marie de France
[10m] Marie de France’s Breton lai “The Chevrefoil” retells a meeting of these two characters in a forest. These two legendary characters fall in love while one takes the other to marry his uncle Mark.
ANSWER: Tristan AND Iseult [accept Isolde in place of Iseult]
[10e] Marie also published a set of Anglo-Norman translations of Aesop’s Fables, which she translated from this author’s Old English version. This first king of Wessex had the epithet “the Great.”
ANSWER: Alfred the Great
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |