← Fame through time900-999
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
Erik the Red11 decades - 2
Olaf Tryggvason18 decades - 3
Haakon the Good0 decades - 4
Harald Greycloak0 decades - 5
Gunnhild, Mother of Kingsnot measured- - 6Ohthere of Hålogalandnot measured-
- 7Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalfnot measured-
- 8Snæbjörn Galtinot measured-
- 9Herjólfur Bárðarsonnot measured-
- 10Raud the Strongnot 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.