Question
A poem in this collection known as the “Confession” declares “I am carried like a sailor-less ship / as through the sky’s paths a vagrant bird is taken”. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this medieval collection including many Latin and old German goliardic poems. The best-known poem in this collection uses the phrase “like the moon / you are changeable” to describe fortune.
ANSWER: Carmina Burana [or Songs from Benediktbeuern] (That poem is “O Fortuna”.)
[10h] Carmina Burana includes the aforementioned “Confession” by this 12th-century goliard. A title of this poet’s patron Rainald of Dassel may be the basis for the nickname used for this anonymous poet.
ANSWER: the Archpoet [or Archipoeta]
[10e] The Archpoet’s Confession ends with an address to “sovereigns of worlds” to act like one of these animals. A folktale about Androcles’ friendship of these large predators may be linked to an Aesop fable about the Mouse and one of these animals.
ANSWER: lions [or leo; accept “Androcles and the Lion” or “The Mouse and the Lion”]
Summary
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