Question
Answer the following about supernatural creatures encountered in the woods in Norwegian novels, for 10 points each.
[10m] In the first chapter of Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, Kristin is offered one of these objects by an elf maiden. The first book in that trilogy is titled for one of these objects that Kristin wears at her wedding.
ANSWER: wreaths [accept bridal wreaths; accept The Wreath or Kransen; prompt on bridal crowns]
[10h] A man encounters the title “Shining” while lost in the woods in the follow-up novel to this series. Each part of this series ends with the prayers of an aging Catholic who tries to depict shining darkness in his painting of Saint Andrew’s Cross.
ANSWER: Septology [or Septologien] (by Jon Fosse)
[10e] Antinous Bellori meets two angels in the woods in this author’s A Time for Everything. This contemporary Norwegian author also wrote the six-volume memoir My Struggle.
ANSWER: Karl Ove Knausgård
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| Minnesota A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |