Question
In a poem in this language, the earth, heaven, and purple seas go into labor, which causes a reed to give birth to Vahagn (“vuh-HAH-gun”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language of an oral epic in which the lion-killer Mher (“muh-HAIR”) becomes the father of David, who unwittingly fights his own son, also named Mher, and curses him to be childless.
ANSWER: Armenian [or hayeren] (The poem is the History of Armenia. The epic is the Daredevils of Sassoun.)
[10m] Vahagn’s beard is made of this substance, which is called the “child of the sea” in an Old Norse kenning and a Vedic epithet. In a Roman myth, Scaevola (“SKY-voh-luh”) uses this substance for a feat so impressive that the Etruscans set him free.
ANSWER: fire [or flames or equivalents]
[10e] A blinding fire sits in one of these structures guarded by the Irish god Nechtain (“NECK-tahn”). The English word burn is cognate of the Old Norse word for these structures, and Odin gives Mimir an eye at one of them under Yggdrasil.
ANSWER: wells [or springs; or brunnr; accept Mímisbrunnr; prompt on water sources]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 17.92 | 96% | 67% | 17% |
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| Yale A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kentucky | McGill | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke | Penn | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Truman State | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ottawa | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |