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| 524 | Boethius writes the Consolation of Philosophy, which will be translated from Latin into every major medieval European language and become highly influential in medieval literature. |
| 800 | Charlemagne, who encouraged education and literature, is crowned emperor of the Romans and king of the Franks. |
| 870 | Viking settlers found the colony of Iceland, which will become the major source of medieval Scandinavian literature. |
| c. 895 | Anglo-Saxon king Alfred, who encourages learning at his court, translates Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy from Latin into Anglo-Saxon. |
| 948 | Egil Skallagrímsson, Scandinavian skaldic poet whose life is celebrated in the Icelandic saga, Egil's Saga (1230), writes Head Ransom while awaiting execution by King Erik Bloodaxe. |
| c. 970 | Anglo-Saxon lyric and narrative poems, including "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," "The Ruin," and "The Wife's Lament," are copied into a manuscript collection later called Exeter Book. |
| c. 1000 | The only surviving manuscript version of the Anglo-Saxon heroic poem... |
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