Question
Answer the following about the overlapping identities of the Norse goddesses Frigg and Freyja, for 10 points each.
[10h] Two answers required. These similarly-named gods are the husbands of Frigg and Freyja. One of their names is an innovative suffixed form of the other, and both of their names ultimately mean “skilled at poetry” or “insane.”
ANSWER: Odin AND Oder [accept answers in either order; accept Óðinn or Wōdanaz in place of “Odin”; accept Óðr or Wōduz in place of “Oder”; reject “Óttar” or “Ótr” or “Hödr”]
[10m] This character’s sister Oddrún names the only text, other than the Lokasenna, in which Frigg and Freyja are seen together. This cruel king based on a real person marries Gudrún and throws her brother Gunnar into a snakepit.
ANSWER: Atli [accept Attila the Hun]
[10e] The Prose Edda states that Odin and Frigg belong to this race of gods, which may indicate they are parallels to the Vanir gods Od and Freyja.
ANSWER: Aesir [or áss; accept ásynja or ásynjur]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 10.91 | 82% | 14% | 14% |
Data
| Arizona State | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Florida | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kentucky | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ottawa | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Truman State | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| McGill | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Duke | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale A | NYU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |