Supernatural Occurrences
This creature kills Beowulf.
What is the dragon?
This aspect of God's nature was used by Dante to structure the line numbers, the parts, and some of the features of the Divine Comedy.
What is the Trinity?
This weapon is used by Beowulf to kill Grendel.
What are his bare hands?
This king, according to Gregory of Tours, "walked with an upright heart before [God]."
Who is Clovis?
This is the specific name of the location where Hrothgar distributes gifts and the bard tell stories.
What is Heorot?
Dante, the pilgrim, mistakenly thinks Lucifer is this object when he sees him at a distance.
What is a windmill?
This creature's three heads are a perverted form of the trinity.
Who is Lucifer?
The person who assists Beowulf in fighting the dragon.
Who is Wiglaf?
The category of sin that receives the worst punishment in Dante's Inferno.
What is fraud/treachery?
The King of the Franks who cries out to Jesus when he is losing in battle following the advice of his Christian wife.
Who is Clovis?
The first miracle performed by St. Benedict (Bennet).
What is making a sieve whole again?
The characteristic of God which explains why Hell has such an ordered structure.
What is rationality?
The location of Beowulf's final battle with Grendel's mother.
What is underwater in a swamp?
The emotion that "clouds the senses" of Dante, the pilgrim, when he hears the story of the lovers, Francesca and Paolo.
What is pity?
The person who has the responsibility to guide and oversee those in the monastic community.
What is an Abbot?
The action that saves St. Benedict from an assassination attempt by poison.
What is saying a blessing over a cup of wine?
One of the four characteristics of God that are referenced on the gates of hell as the source of hell's creation.
What are justice, divine omnipotence, highest wisdom, and primal love?
When warlords like Clovis and Hrothgar engage in battles, what do they obtain (other than land and power)?
What is loot?
These three sinners are chewed on by Lucifer at the bottom of Dante's Inferno.
Who are Judas, Brutus, and Cassius?
The disintegration of this empire led to the decline of reading and writing identified by Gregory of Tours as characteristic of his time.
What is the western division of the Roman Empire?
The supernatural powers of this object were a source of conflict between the people of Poitiers and the people of Tours.
What is the body of St. Martin?
The metaphor, inspired by Plato, and used by Augustine, Anslem, and Dante to describe the Truth manifested by God.
What is light?
Beowulf takes this gruesome souvenir back with him after he fights Grendel’s mother to prove his triumph.
What is Grendel’s head?
The approach that Anselm says that Christians should take when seeking the truth.
What is "faith seeking understanding"?
The distinguishing characteristic of a "cenobite" monk--the kind of monk that St. Benedict's Rule was written for.
What is that they live in a monastery under the authority of an abbot?