9th century in poetry

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Centuries in poetry:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades in poetry:	800s 810s 820s 830s 840s 850s 860s 870s 880s 890s
Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century

Contents 1 Arabic world 2 Germanic and Celtic Europe 2.1 Poets 2.2 Works 3 Byzantine Empire and Slavic Europe 3.1 Events 3.2 Poets 4 East Asia 5 South Asia 6 Decades and years

[edit] Arabic world

• The Book of One Thousand and One Nights was compiled in Baghdad.

[edit] Germanic and Celtic Europe

[edit] Poets

• Likely period when Cynewulf flourishes in Mercia or Northumbria.
• Bragi Boddason flourishes in the Swedish court in the first half of the century, author of Bragi inn gamli Boddason (Norwegian)
• Þjóðólfur úr Hvini(Norwegian)
• Þorbjörn hornklofi(Norwegian)
• Reign of King Alfred the Great, a noted poet in Anglo-Saxon, in Wessex from 871 to 899.

[edit] Works

• Pangur Bán is written circa 800 in Old Irish.
• Llywarch Hen written in Welsh.
• Approximate period of Waldere in Old English
• Lay of Hildebrand in the 830s in Old High German
• Ludwigslied and Georgslied in Old High German in the 880s or 890s
• Sequence of Saint Eulalia, the earliest surviving poem in Old French.
• Expansion of Gregorian chant, particularly in the Frankish lands of Europe.

[edit] Byzantine Empire and Slavic Europe

[edit] Events

• c. 855: Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius develop the Glagolitic alphabet;Cyrillic is developed about the same time in Bulgaria. These alphabets permit translation of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages. First development of Slavic literary languages.
• Preslav Literary School (est. c. 885) and Ohrid Literary School (est. 886) flourish in Bulgaria.

[edit] Poets

• Constantine of Preslav in Bulgaria authors Азбучна молитва (Alphabet Prayer), the earliest surviving poetry in Old Church Slavonic.

[edit] East Asia

• The Han-shan poet and Feng-Kan, both part of the Tientai Trio, flourish in China.
• The Six best Waka poets in Japan, including Kisen (whose exact dates of birth and death are unknown)

[edit] South Asia

• Approximate date of the text of the Bhagavata purana

[edit] Decades and years

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