I believe that is is 2. That he is very proud.
Answer:
marble racing
Explanation:
it talks mostly about marble racing in this context but at the start it has Jelle Bakker and if it mentioned them more it would be about them
Crown for king or steel for sword(soliders protected king) (connected to a thing. crown= king. kenning. a two word compound that takes the place of a simple noun (it can be used to create variation, and often uses synecdoche and metonymy).
The answer is either A or C, but I would choose A.