In a story by this author, a jealous husband kills a nightingale and throws its bloody corpse onto his wife’s chest. The Strengleikar (STRENG-“lay”-“car”) consists of Norse translations of this poet. The protagonist of a story by this author is accused of loving boys for concealing his tryst with a woman resting in a pavilion topped with a golden eagle. This author used the image of honeysuckle intertwined with hazel to depict the adulterous relationship of (*) Tristan and Isolde. This protagonist of Lauren Groff’s Matrix wrote a story in which a baroness’s descendants are born without noses after hers is bitten off by a werewolf. This woman, who may have written at the court of England’s Henry II, authored Bisclavret (BEES-clah-“vray”), Lanval, and Chevrefoil (SHEH-vruh-fwah). For 10 points, name this 12th-century poet who wrote a number of Breton lais ■END■
ANSWER: Marie de France [prompt on de France] (The lead-in refers to the Lay of Laüstic.)
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