will announce a contest. Odysseus Used to line up axes inside his hall, Twelve of them, like the curved chocks That prop up a ship when it is being built, And he would stand far off and send an arrow Whizzing through them all. I will propose This contest to my suitors, and whoever Can bend that bow and slip the string on its notch, And shoot an arrow through all twelve axes, With him will I go, leaving behind this house

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Davion Stone

7 April, 13:55

will announce a contest. Odysseus Used to line up axes inside his hall, Twelve of them, like the curved chocks That prop up a ship when it is being built, And he would stand far off and send an arrow Whizzing through them all. I will propose This contest to my suitors, and whoever Can bend that bow and slip the string on its notch, And shoot an arrow through all twelve axes, With him will I go, leaving behind this house

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Santiago Mcclure · Answer 1

This resulted in the death of the suitors'

Because in this passage they talk:

"Whizzing through them all. I will propose

This contest to my suitors, and whoever

Can bend that bow and slip the string on its notch ... "

It is like they are offering to them, which makes it clear that they were the ones who died