Events
- Sólarljóð (The Song of the Sun) an Old Norse poem, written in Iceland[1]
Births
- Jehan Erart born 1200 or 1210 (died 1259), trouvère
- Ulrich von Liechtenstein (died 1278), German medieval nobleman, knight, politician, and Minnesänger
- possible
- Jayadeva (died unknown), Sanskrit poet known for the epic Gita Govinda
Deaths
- Chand Bardai (born 1149), Hindu Brahmin and the court poet of the Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan
- Zhu Xi (born 1130), Confucian scholar, philosopher and writer[2]
References
- ^ Austurland, safn austfirzkra fræða (in Icelandic). Sögusjóður Austfirðinga. 1947. p. 27.
- ^ Lianbin Dai, “From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi (1130–1200) as a Reader-Annotator.” In Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach, edited by Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 136–163 (136).