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11th century in literature

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Events

  • c. 1000–1025 – The only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is written.
  • 1007 – The Book of Kells is probably stolen from the Abbey of Kells in Ireland for several months.
  • 1016 – The Icelandic skald Bersi Skáldtorfuson is captured at the naval Battle of Nesjar and imprisoned.
  • c. 1022 – Nannayya, Aadi Kavi ("the first poet"), begins work on Andhra Mahabharatam, a translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu and the first work of Telugu literature.
  • 1029 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni orders the library of Rey in Persia to be burned and all books to be deemed as heretical.
  • 1070
    • The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is founded in the Vietnamese capital.
    • King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians.
  • 1080–1086 – The Chinese poet and polymath Su Shi is sent into internal exile for political reasons. During this period he writes the first and second Chibifu (赤壁賦 "The Red Cliffs").
  • 1086 – Poet-ruler of Al-Andalus, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, kills his fellow-poet, former lover and vizier Muhammad ibn Ammar.

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