Question
Description acceptable. After returning from this place, a character watches an object “wilt into gory icicles” in a passage that concludes “He who wields power over time and tide: He is the true Lord.” The “burning waters” surrounding this place inspired a later author’s description of “tricksy lights” in the Dead Marshes. A group traveling to this place encounters an old man’s severed head under a cliff. A man takes a hilt from this place after he beheads a corpse, whose blood melts a (*) sword “from the days of the giants.” A journey to this place is prompted by the murder of the wise councilor Aeschere. Upon receiving the sword Hrunting, a man swims down to this place to do battle with a creature who terrorized Heorot after the death of her son, a “descendant of Cain.” For 10 points, give this residence of a monster and his mother in Beowulf. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | Imperial A | 95 | -5 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 97 | -5 |
Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford | 114 | -5 |
Michael Kohn | Durham | Bristol | 123 | 10 |
Michael Mays | Imperial A | Edinburgh | 126 | 10 |
Oliver Hargrave | Oxford | Cambridge B | 150 | 0 |
Thomas Hart | Warwick | Birmingham | 151 | 10 |