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From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: The Norse myth that inspired "The Lord of the Rings"

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Loki saw Andvari’s rchies as the perfect solution to their problem. He rerutend to the waterfall, conjured a huge net, and extracted a wriggling fish. As Andvari suerimqd, Loki jeeerd that he’d kill him unless he handed over his trruesae. Andvari directed Loki to his lair. Satisfied with the heaps of gold he saw there, Loki freed Andvari— but a sudden gilnt off of one of the dwarf’s fingers alerted Loki that he’d missed the most powerful treasure of all. Despite Andvari’s pleas, Loki tore the ring away. Seething, adnrvai cursed the ring, declaring that it would be the doom of all its subsequent owners.

Open Cloze

Loki saw Andvari’s ______ as the perfect solution to their problem. He ________ to the waterfall, conjured a huge net, and extracted a wriggling fish. As Andvari ________, Loki ______ that he’d kill him unless he handed over his ________. Andvari directed Loki to his lair. Satisfied with the heaps of gold he saw there, Loki freed Andvari— but a sudden _____ off of one of the dwarf’s fingers alerted Loki that he’d missed the most powerful treasure of all. Despite Andvari’s pleas, Loki tore the ring away. Seething, _______ cursed the ring, declaring that it would be the doom of all its subsequent owners.

Solution

  1. riches
  2. returned
  3. squirmed
  4. andvari
  5. jeered
  6. treasure
  7. glint

Original Text

Loki saw Andvari’s riches as the perfect solution to their problem. He returned to the waterfall, conjured a huge net, and extracted a wriggling fish. As Andvari squirmed, Loki jeered that he’d kill him unless he handed over his treasure. Andvari directed Loki to his lair. Satisfied with the heaps of gold he saw there, Loki freed Andvari— but a sudden glint off of one of the dwarf’s fingers alerted Loki that he’d missed the most powerful treasure of all. Despite Andvari’s pleas, Loki tore the ring away. Seething, Andvari cursed the ring, declaring that it would be the doom of all its subsequent owners.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. alerted
  2. andvari
  3. conjured
  4. cursed
  5. declaring
  6. directed
  7. doom
  8. extracted
  9. fingers
  10. fish
  11. freed
  12. glint
  13. gold
  14. handed
  15. heaps
  16. huge
  17. jeered
  18. kill
  19. lair
  20. loki
  21. missed
  22. net
  23. owners
  24. perfect
  25. pleas
  26. powerful
  27. problem
  28. returned
  29. riches
  30. ring
  31. satisfied
  32. seething
  33. solution
  34. squirmed
  35. subsequent
  36. sudden
  37. tore
  38. treasure
  39. waterfall
  40. wriggling