Question
The speaker of a poem included in this codex describes “[T]he citadels crumbled” and “the work of giants ruined” in a poem that focuses on a “well-crafted ancient-work.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this codex of Old English poems including “The Seafarer.” “Master artisans” lie buried for “a hundred generations” in “The Ruin,” a poem from this codex.
ANSWER: Exeter Book
[10e] “The Ruin” belongs to this genre of Old English poems. “The Wife’s Lament” and “The Husband’s Message,” both of which are in the Exeter Book, are other examples of these poetic laments for the dead.
ANSWER: elegy [or elegies]
[10m] Old English words used in “The Ruin,” including enta and orþonc (“or-thonc”), inspired character and place names used by this author. This author likened Beowulf to an elegy in the essay “The Monsters and the Critics.”
ANSWER: J. R. R. Tolkien [or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]
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