Packet 4: Bonus 8
A man with this specific job is called the emasculating word argr when he suggests that a traveller should go home to fight his wife’s lover. For 10 points each:
[10h] A man with what specific job, usually read as Odin in disguise, viciously mocks Thor’s poverty and relations with women in the Harbarthsljoth, or “Taunting of Greybeard”?
ANSWER: ferryman [or ferjukarlinn; accept descriptions of a person who operates a ferry; reject more general terms like “sailor” or “rower”]
[10e] The Harbarthsljoth is one of several verbal contests humiliating gods found in this collection. Unlike a similarly named text by Snorri Sturluson, this collection from the Codex Regius is written in alliterative verse.
ANSWER: Poetic Edda [or Elder Edda or Sæmundar Edda; reject “Prose Edda”]
[10m] In the Lokasenna, Loki ruins this god’s feast by calling Odin a cross-dressing pervert, Njord a urine-drinker, and many gods cuckolds. This sea god asks Thor and Tyr to bring him a cauldron large enough to brew beer for all the Æsir.
ANSWER: Ægir [or Hlér; or Gymir]
<HA, Beliefs> | NAFTA-Packet-4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 14.83 | 86% | 41% | 21% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UBC B | Abbas I founded the Abbasids | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |