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The 10th century
Whose working lives fell in the 10th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 10th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Egill Skallagrímsson0 decades - 2
Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarsonnot measured- - 3Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoðinot measured-
- 4Náttfari0 decades
- 5Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld0 decades
- 6Kormákr Ögmundarsonnot measured-
- 7Steinunn Refsdóttirnot measured-
- 8Úlfr Uggason0 decades
- 9
Þorleifr jarlsskáldnot measured- - 10
Einarr Helgason0 decades - 11Þórðr Sjárekssonnot measured-
- 12Tindr Hallkelsson0 decades
- 13Eyjólfr dáðaskáldnot measured-
- 14Þorbjörn Vífilssonnot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.