The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

Bramante's work in the city, which included Santa Maria presso San Satiro ( a reconstruction of a small 9th-century church ), the beautiful luminous tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie and three cloisters for Sant ' Ambrogio, drew also on his studies of the Early Christian architecture of Milan such as the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

Specific valkyries are mentioned on two runestones ; the early 9th-century Rök Runestone in Östergötland, Sweden, and the 10th-century Karlevi Runestone on the island of Öland, Sweden, which mentions the valkyrie Þrúðr.

The Old Norse form of the name was Þjóðríkr ( spelled þiaurikʀ on the 9th-century Rök Runestone ).

After the fall of the Roman Empire, variations on the term appear in the titles of the 9th-century Historia Britonum and the 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae, which became tremendously popular during the High Middle Ages.

She points out that buckets of apples were found in the 9th-century Oseberg ship burial site in Norway and that fruit and nuts ( Iðunn having been described as being transformed into a nut in Skáldskaparmál ) have been found in the early graves of the Germanic peoples in England and elsewhere on the continent of Europe which may have had a symbolic meaning and also that nuts are still a recognized symbol of fertility in Southwest England.

Wilfrid is also mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, but as the Chronicle was probably a 9th-century compilation, the material on Wilfrid may ultimately have derived either from Stephen's Vita or from Bede.

Part I is based on the Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (" Come, Creator Spirit "), and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.

This church was called Novella ( New ) because it was built on the site of the 9th-century oratory of Santa Maria delle Vigne.

The most important commentary is the 9th-century Great Exegesis on the Sutra of Complete Enlightenment ( 圓覺經大疏鈔 Dajuejing Dashuchao ) by Zongmi.

In his 9th-century treatise on divorce, Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, listed lamiae among the supernatural dangers that threatened marriages, and identified them with geniciales feminae, female reproductive spirits.

The church was built in the 12th century by Stefan Nemanja on a previous 9th-century church which held the Bishopric mentioned in a charter of Byzantine emperor Basil II in 1018.

Examples include the 9th-century Wachtendonk Psalms ( Dutch: " Wachtendonkse Psalmen "), a West Low Franconian translation of some of the Psalms on the threshold of what is considered Dutch, and the 12th-century County of Loon poet Henric van Veldeke ( 1150 – after 1184 ).

The 9th-century Christian chronologer George Syncellus cites Sextus Julius Africanus as writing in reference to the darkness mentioned in the synoptic gospels as occurring at the death of Jesus: Thallus calls this darkness an eclipse of the Sun in the third book of his Histories. Africanus then goes on to point out that an eclipse cannot occur at Passover when the moon is full and therefore diametrically opposite the Sun.

Its origin is notable in that it appears to be a translation from a 9th-century Old Saxon original ; this theory was originally made on metrical grounds, and then confirmed by the discovery of a fragment of Old Saxon verse that appears to correspond to part of the work. In 1875 the German scholar Sievers was first to show that these lines differ from the rest in meter.

The initial 9th-century construction, initiated during the reign of Pietro Tribuno and built on Roman foundations, was used as a watch tower or lighthouse for the dock, which then occupied a substantial part of the area which is now the Piazzetta.

A male-line descendant of the 9th-century prince Rurik, Tatischev was born near Pskov on April 19, 1686.

This culminates in a detailed passage on the Book of the Prefect ( or Eparch ; in Greek the Eparchikon Biblion ), a 9th-century edict of the Emperor Leo VI the Wise.

The palace is on the site of a 9th-century fortress, called mayrit, constructed as an outpost by Muhammad I of Córdoba and inherited after 1036 by the independent Moorish Taifa of Toledo.

The 9th-century " Historia Brittonum " sees in Lucius a translation of the Celtic name Llever Maur ( Great Light ), says that the envoys of Lucius were Fagan and Wervan, and tells us that with this king all the other island kings ( reguli Britanniæ ) were baptized ( Hist.

The well-preserved abbey and ruins of the 9th-century hermit's cells attract visitors to the island.

In the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( around four hundred years after his time ) Ælle is recorded as being the first bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ", though there is no evidence that this was a contemporary title.

It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves, or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.

There is no evidence that the term was a title that had any practical use, with implications of formal rights, powers and office, or even that it had any existence before the 9th-century.

* Stephen Lawhead's novel Byzantium ( 1996 ) is set in 9th-century Constantinople.

There is also a surviving 9th-century Latin text, preserved at Wolfenbüttel in Germany, which mentions the ingredients of what appears to be Greek fire and the operation of the siphons used to project it.

The first datable mention of King Arthur is in a 9th-century Latin text.

The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.

Additionally, a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Kyrgyz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian script of the 10th century.

There is a large 9th-century funerary barrow in Novgorod Oblast, reminiscent of the mounds at Old Uppsala, Sweden, which is called Shum Gora.

In the 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle he is referred to as a Bretwalda.

Sigyn is introduced as a goddess, an ásynja, in the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, where the gods are holding a grand feast for the visiting Ægir, and in kennings for Loki: " husband of Sigyn ", " cargo of incantation-fetter's arms ", and in a passage quoted from the 9th-century Haustlöng, " the burden of Sigyn's arms ".

This 13th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Uda and go-( 後 ), translates literally as " later "; and thus, he is sometimes called the " Later Emperor Uda ".

This 14th-century sovereign was named after the 9th-century Emperor Daigo and go-( 後 ), translates literally as " later ;" and thus, he is sometimes called the ' Later Emperor Daigo '.

In a homily preached at Chur and preserved in an 8th-or 9th-century manuscript, St. Timothy is represented as an apostle of Gaul, whence he came to Britain and baptized there a king named Lucius, who became a missionary, went to Gaul, and finally settled at Chur, where he preached the gospel with great success.

A 9th-century collection of church legislation known as the False Decretals, which was once attributed to Saint Isidore of Seville, is largely composed of forgeries.

Photios is one of the most famous figures not only of 9th-century Byzantium but of the entire history of the Byzantine Empire.

The earliest known text to mention Arthur in this regard is the 9th-century Historia Brittonum.

In support of this hypothesis is the 10th-century diplomatic protocol of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, where the Bulgarian nobles are called boliades, while the 9th-century Bulgar sources call them boila.

This diagnosis is acknowledged by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1911 ), which states: " The most trustworthy statements as to the early existence of the disease are found in an account by the 9th-century Persian physician Rhazes, by whom its symptoms were clearly described, its pathology explained by a humoral or fermentation theory, and directions given for its treatment.

Hengist and Horsa are attested in Bede's 8th-century Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ; in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius ; and in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a collection of annals compiled from the end of the 9th century.

His name is an Irish version of Latin Miles Hispaniae, meaning " Soldier of Hispania ", which is attested in a passage (§ 13 ) in the 9th-century pseudo-history Historia Brittonum (" The History of the Britons ").

Hvitserk ( Whiteshirt ) was one of the legendary sons of the 9th-century Norse king Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Kraka, attested to by the Ragnarssona þáttr.