1200 in poetry explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Austurland, safn austfirzkra fræða . 1947 . Sögusjóður Austfirðinga . 27 . is.
2. 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).