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] Two answers required. 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 the Anglo-Saxons had the epithet “the Great.”
ANSWER: Alfred the Great
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 80% | 80% | 60% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Durham | Cambridge B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Birmingham | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Oxford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Edinburgh | Warwick | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |