Question
This poet was credited with predicting a tax revolt against the “great tyrant” Æthelstan in the Great Prophecy of Britain. For 10 points each:
[10m] Several praise poems to Urien are attributed to what 6th-century bard? A recension by Charlotte Guest included the 16th-century “tale” of this bard, whose namesake manuscript preserved “The Battle of the Trees.”
ANSWER: Taliesin [accept Gwion or Gwion Bach ap Gwreang; accept the Book of Taliesin or Llyfr Taliesin; accept Hanes Taliesin]
[10e] In the Book of Taliesin, the title bard boasts of witnessing this event, which is narrated by its central object in The Dream of the Rood.
ANSWER: crucifixion of Jesus [or Jesus being crucified or equivalents or word forms; prompt on the Passion, the death of Jesus, the execution of Christ, or equivalents]
[10h] Gwerful Mechain, whose cywydd (“KUH-with”) on crucifixion is often uncredited, wrote an ode to the vagina in reply to this poet’s complaint poem about his penis. Seamus Heaney’s anthology The Rattle Bag is titled for a poem by this medieval Welsh member of the Poets of the Nobility.
ANSWER: Dafydd ap Gwilym [prompt on ap Gwilym]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 10.77 | 92% | 15% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| var merchants | The Jeam Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |