Round 9: Tossup 4

An 87-line poem in this language written in couplets is known as "The Rhyming Poem.” One of this language’s four major manuscripts, the Nowell Codex, contains (15[1])a story whose title character is called “the kindest to his people and keenest to win fame”. Part of a poem in this language that asks "Where is the horse? Where is the rider? Where is the giver of treasure?” was adapted into the Lament of the Rohirrim in (*) The Lord of the Rings. The sword Hrunting is destroyed when the title character of a poem in this language tries to use it to kill an "aglaecwif" (“ah-GLACK-weef”), who attacks Heorot seeking revenge for the death of her son Grendel. For 10 points, identify this language used to write Beowulf. ■END■ (10[1])

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