Europe Events The Sicilian School, Dolce Stil Novo, and later the Tuscan School mark the emergence of literary Italian Works Huon of Bordeaux written ( 1216 to 1268) Nibelunglied written approximately 1180–1210 Lucas de Tuy and others, Chronicon Mundi ("Great Chronicle of the World"); Spain King Horn, the oldest known English verse romance, is written around 1225 Poema de Fernán González written between 1250 and 1266 Le Récit d'un ménestrel de Reims written around 1260 Roman de la Rose written by Guillaume de Lorris (around 1230) and Jean de Meun (around 1275) The Codex Regius, the manuscript in which the Poetic Edda is preserved, is written ( 1270s) Heinrich der Vogler compiles Dietrichs Flucht around 1280 The Owl and the Nightingale perhaps composed around 1280 (but may be up to a century later) Havelok the Dane written in Middle English ( 1285–1290) Liber sex festorum beatae Virginis written by Gottfried von Hagenau 1293–1300 Völsunga saga is written in the late 13th century Oral tradition of Robin Hood and the ballads of Robin Hood emerge in England Poets Giacomo da Lentini, founder of the Sicilian School and author of the earliest known Sonnets Guido Guinizelli (d. before 1276) Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255–1300) Hadewijch, Dutch woman mystic Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, Welsh Ibn Sahl of Seville (1212/13–1251) John Peckham (d. 1292), Archbishop of Canterbury and probable author of Philomena Jacob van Maerlant (c. 1230/40–1288/1300), Flemish poet writing in Middle Dutch Konrad von Würzburg (d. 1287), German Scots-Gaelic crusaders and poets Muireadhach Albanach and Gillebríghde Albanach flourish at the beginning of the century East Asia China Poets Lu You 陸游 (1125–1209), Southern Song dynasty poet Japan Works Japanese poetry anthologies: Shin Kokin Wakashū (also spelled "Shinkokinshu") the eighth Japanese imperial waka poetry anthology. Its name apparently aimed to show the relation and counterpart to Kokin Wakashū, ordered in 1201 by former Emperor Go-Toba, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (whose first name is sometimes romanized as Sadaie), Fujiwara Ariie, Fujiwara Ietaka (Karyū), the priest Jakuren, Minamoto Michitomo, and Asukai Masatsune (completed in 1205) Shinchokusen Wakashū Shokugosen Wakashū Shokukokin Wakashū Poets Asukai Gayu 飛鳥井雅有, also known as "Asukai Masaari" (1241–1301), Kamakura period nobleman and poet; has 86 poems in the official anthology Shokukokin Wakashū Eifuku-mon In 永福門院, also written "Eifuku Mon'in", also known as Saionji Shōko 西園寺しょう子, 西園寺鏱子 (1271–1342) Kamakura period poet and a consort of the 92nd emperor, Fushimi; she belonged to the Kyōgoku school