920s in poetry

Events

Works published

• Waltharius, a Latin poem founded on German popular tradition, which relates the exploits of the west Gothic hero Walter of Aquitaine

  Births

• Dunash ben Labrat, Jewish poet in Al-Andalus

• Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan

• Fujiwara no Nakafumi, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan

• Ferdowsi حکیم ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی, Persian

• Kishi Joō, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals and an early Japanese woman poet

  Deaths

• Mibu no Tadamine, Japanese waka poet

• March 26: Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persian mystic, revolutionary writer, poet and pious teacher of Sufism; most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity
• Oshikochi Mitsune, Japanese waka poet and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals

• Vasugupta, writer of the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta