Packet 4: Tossup 14

Sir Brunor lived in the Castle of Tears with one of these characters, who became the mother of Sir Galehaut (“GAL-uh-hot”). In the Historia Regum Britanniae, King Arthur remembers one of these characters named Retho demanding beard hair and dreams about a black bear symbolizing one of these characters. In the Welsh Triads, Guinevere and her father are these sorts of characters. In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, Emperor Lucius’s best soldier Golapas is one of these characters, who make up Lucius’s personal guard. One of these characters knocks off Arthur’s crown on St. Michael’s Mount. (10[1])Caw of Pictland shaves off the face of one of these characters, Olwen’s father (10[3])Ysbaddaden (10[5])(“us-buh-DOT-un”). Brutus (10[1])of Troy (10[1])displaced (10[1])these original inhabitants (10[2])of Albion and their leader (-5[1])Gogmagog. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, Brân (“brahn”) the (10[1])Blessed was what kind of creature (10[1])that names an Irish causeway? (10[3])■END■ (10[1])

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