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Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. During this event, one figure worries that the ground trembling at the approach of a horseman indicates her “brother’s slayer” has arrived. A god opines the nine nights he will have to wait for a meeting at Barri agreed upon during this event. (-5[1])During this event, one figure is told she will sit “on the eagle’s hill,” (-5[1])marry a three-headed giant, and be cursed with runes for “longing and madness and lust” in a series of escalating threats. That shining-armed central figure in this event refuses bribes like (*) Draupnir or eleven golden apples. This event occurs after a god refuses to eat or sleep due to sights he glimpsed (-5[1])while sitting in Odin’s high seat. That god is doomed to fight with only an antler at Ragnarok after giving away a sword that fights by itself in order to convince Skirnir (-5[1])to participate in this event. For 10 points, name this event, which ensues from a fertility god becoming smitten with a giantess. ■END■ (0[3])

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