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 a story whose title character is called (15[1])“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 (10[1])the title character (10[1])of a poem in (10[1])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, (10[1])identify this language used to write Beowulf. ■END■

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