← Fame through time800-899
The 9th century
Whose working lives fell in the 9th 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 9th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Rollonot measured- - 2
Harald Fairhair3 decades - 3
Rǫgnvaldr Eysteinssonnot measured- - 4
Grímur Kambannot measured- - 5Ketill Flatnose0 decades
- 6Ragnvald Heidumhærenot measured-
- 7Kjotve the Rich0 decades
- 8Geirmundur heljarskinn Hjörssonnot measured-
- 9Eystein Glumranot measured-
- 10Hjörleifr Hróðmarssonnot measured-
- 11Þorir Ásvaldssonnot 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.