9th century in poetry

9th century in poetry

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Arabic world

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

Turkic world

* Possible early date for the oral development of the Book of Dede Korkut

Germanic and Celtic Europe

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.

Works

* 800s:
** Pangur Bán is written circa 800 in Old Irish.
* 830s:
** Lay of Hildebrand in Old High German
* 880s:
** Ludwigslied and Georgslied in Old High German (880s or 890s)
* 890s:
** "De bellis Parisiacae urbis" (The Wars of the City of Paris), in Latin, by Abbo Cernuus
* "decade not listed:"
** Expansion of Gregorian chant, particularly in the Frankish lands of Europe.
** Llywarch Hen written in Welsh.
** Sequence of Saint Eulalia, the earliest surviving poem in Old French.
** Approximate period of Waldere in Old English

Byzantine Empire and Slavic Europe

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.

Poets

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

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)
* Possible date of Sarumaru no Taifu

outh Asia

Works

* Approximate date of the text of the Bhagavata purana

Poets

* Rajasekhara, in Sanskrit

Decades and years


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