Question
Peter Ackroyd argues that this event was neither an example of revenge nor a random event. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this event that was supposedly preceded by “flashes of lightning” and “dragons flying in the air.” After this event, Alcuin of York wondered how God let “so great a company of saints” to suffer.
ANSWER: Viking raid of Lindisfarne [accept answers describing the 793 Vikings sack Lindisfarne Abbey]
[10m] Lindisfarne was first described as an abbey in this scholar’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. This saint is often referred to as “the father of English history.”
ANSWER: The Venerable Bede [or Saint Bede; or Bede the Venerable]
[10e] After raiding Lindisfarne, the Vikings took some of these objects belonging to St. Cuthbert. These objects are parts of the body or physical possessions of deceased holy figures used for veneration.
ANSWER: relics
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
Data
| Cornell Wind | Rochester A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Cornell Earth | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rochester B | Cornell Fire | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Rochester C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |