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Packet B: Bonus 17

This ruler’s wife was responsible for his birth as she had dropped an apple of fertility onto his father’s laugh at Freyja’s behest. For 10 points each:
[10m] What son of Rerir and grandson of Odin constructed a great hall centered around the great tree Barnstokkr? Sinfjotli resists the pain of clothes being sewn into his skin, proving himself to be of this ruler’s lineage in his eponymous saga.
ANSWER: King Völsung [accept the Völsunga Saga or the Saga of the Völsungs]
[10e] Völsung’s future bride drops the apple on Rerir’s lap while in the guise of this bird. Two of these birds named for thought and memory act as messengers and spies for Odin.
ANSWER: crows [or ravens; accept corvids; accept kráka; or hrafn]
[10h] Later in the saga, this daughter of King Völsung avenges her father’s death at her husband’s hands by sleeping with her brother Sigmund and birthing Sinfjotli. After avenging her family, this woman walks into a burning hall to die with her husband.
ANSWER: Signy [or Signe; or Sieglinde]
<KT, Mythology> | Packet B - Queens A, UCLA B, Edinburgh B, St. Georges A

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownBowdoin A1010020ME
Harvard AYale010010E
MITDartmouth A010010E

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