Question
A festival of poetry conducted in this language climaxes with the “crowning” and “chairing” of its winners. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language used by participants in Eisteddfodau (”AY-stead-fod-ai”). A compilation of stories in this language was first translated into English by Lady Charlotte Guest.
ANSWER: Welsh [or Cymraeg (”cuhm-RAYG”)] (Guest translated the Mabinogion.)
[10e] Competitors at an Eisteddfod are referred to in English by this name for a poet or storyteller. Shakespeare was known as “the [this word] of Avon.”
ANSWER: bard
[10h] This poet was awarded the chair at the 1917 Eisteddfod for his poem Yr Arwr (”ur ARR-urr”), or The Hero. The award went unclaimed, however, because this was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele (”PASH-un-dale”).
ANSWER: Hedd Wyn [or Ellis Humphrey Evans]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |