← Fame through time1000-1099
The 11th century
Whose working lives fell in the 11th 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 11th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Thorfinn Karlsefni0 decades - 2Sæmundr fróðinot measured-
- 3
Thorvald Eiriksson0 decades - 4
Gunnlaugr Ormstunga0 decades - 5Ísleifur Gissurarsonnot measured-
- 6
Bersi Skáldtorfusonnot measured- - 7
Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir0 decades - 8Erik Gnupsson0 decades
- 9Eilífr Goðrúnarsonnot measured-
- 10
Gissur Ísleifssonnot measured- - 11Óttarr Svartinot measured-
- 12Þórðr Kolbeinssonnot measured-
- 13Skúli Þórsteinssonnot measured-
- 14Þórarinn loftunganot measured-
- 15Arnórr jarlaskáld0 decades
- 16Skapti Þóroddssonnot measured-
- 17Hjalti Skeggiasonnot measured-
- 18Þórarinn Skeggjasonnot 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.