Round 8: Tossup 10

Description acceptable. In one account, this event occurred because a queen was slapped by her sister in the second of “Three Harmful Blows.” Before this event, one participant dreamed that he was fastened to a wheel of fortune above a pit of beasts, before his dead nephew appeared accompanied by women he had saved to warn him to avert this event. That man ignored advice from the “butler” Lucan to escape this “wicked day of destiny” by avenging this event in a (*) duel which mortally wounded him. Negotiations to stop this event were thwarted when a man unthinkingly drew his sword to strike an adder. After this battle, which may have occurred at Salisbury Plain, Bedivere was thrice asked (10[1])to throw an object into a lake, (10[1])summoning Nimue (10[1])to take (10[1])a king to Avalon. (10[1])For 10 points, Mordred was killed along with most knights of Camelot in what battle? ■END■

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