The Norse discovery was documented in the 13th century Icelandic Sagas and was corroborated by recent L ' Anse aux Meadows archeological evidence.

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

Near Kayenta, Arizona, Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum in Chicago has been studying a group of Ancient Pueblo villages that relocated from the canyons to the high mesa tops during the late 13th century.

He asserts that isolated communities relied on raiding for food and supplies, and that internal conflict and warfare became common in the 13th century.

In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis wrote his own novel Fadil ibn Natiq, known as Theologus Autodidactus in the West, as a critical response to Hayy ibn Yaqdhan.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

The primary sources regarding Asgard come from the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Icelandic Snorri Sturluson, and the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from a basis of much older Skaldic poetry.

Snorri's interpretation of the 13th century foreshadows 20th century views of Indo-European migration from the east.

* Wikisource: Prose Edda / Gylfaginning ( The Fooling Of Gylfe ) by Sturluson, Snorri, 13th century Edda, in English.

The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.

His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

Active contact between the Wajin ( the ethnically Japanese ) and the Ainu of Ezochi ( now known as Hokkaido ) began in the 13th century.

A rare High Medieval image of Alfred, 13th century

Dante Alighieri, in the Divine Comedy, recounts that he saw Alfonso's spirit seated outside the gates of Purgatory with the other monarchs whom Dante blamed for the chaotic political state of Europe during the 13th century.

In the Middle Ages another Iranian people appeared in Eastern-Europe, the Jazones who probably came to the medieval Kingdom of Hungary together with the Cumans in the 13th century after they were defeated by the Mongols.

From then on, Turco-Mongolian invasions and long rule by Turco-Mongol dynasties supplanted the Iranian character of the region although the title of Khwarezm-Shah was maintained well up to the 13th century.

The Jász people, a tribe of Iranian descent, settled the area in the 13th century, and were largely self-governing in the region that formed with Jászberény as its cultural and political centre.

Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

The Zohar first appeared in Spain in the 13th century, and was published by a Jewish writer named Moses de Leon.

* John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford ( 1917 – 2002 ), British peer and writer

The 11th century writer Walter of Speyer gives one version, but the most popular variations originate from the 13th century Golden Legend.

* William the Clerk 13th century Scoto-Norman poet, writer of the Old French Roman de Fergus

* Richard Rolle de Hampole, 13th cent., England, religious writer

It is thought that he did do this work, a necessary work in writing the history of Denmark, because a 13th century writer used this list, called Genealogia Regum Daniae.

The poet Al-Tutili, the 12th century traveller Benjamin of Tudela, the 13th century writer William of Tudela and the physician and theologian Michael de Villanueva ( true name of Servetus ) were from the city.

In 2003, Kansas City Star writer / editor Doug Worgul discovered a " Toynbee Tile " at the corner of 13th and Grand in downtown Kansas City.

Villard de Honnecourt, a 13th century itinerant master-builder from the Picardy in the north of France, was the first writer to use the word ogive.

Other noted poets from this period include 13th century Vidyapati, known for his love lyrics and Baḍu, Chandidas, writer of Sri Krishna Kirtan.

Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, (" ha-Nakdan ", meaning " the punctuator " or " grammarian "), commonly known as Berachya, ( 13th century ) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, translator, poet, and philosopher.

* Pierre de Maricourt ( 13th century ), a writer on magnetism and astrolabes

Rashīd al-Dīn Tabīb () also Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ) (), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

* The classic novel L ' Astrée ( 1607 – 27 ) by Honoré d ' Urfé was obviously inspired by the prose romance of chivalry Amadis de Gaula, which had been circulating since the late 13th century, but reached its pinnacle when reassembled by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

From 2000 to 2006, Down appeared in the films The King's Guard with Eric Roberts and Ron Perlman, The Meeksville Ghost, 13th Child, Today You Die and Seven Days of Grace, where she also was a writer.

** Van den vos Reynaerde-( The local Netherlandic tale about the trickster fox reynard ) by an anonymous 13th century Dutch writer )

* Andrea da Grosseto ( 13th century ), writer and translator

late 13th century ), was an Italian romance writer best known for cowriting Marco Polo's autobiography while they were in prison together in Genoa.

Among the more famous earls are Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford ; Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford ; John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford ; and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, suspected by many as being the true writer of the works of Shakespeare.

John ( Jack ) Richard Williams ( October 29, 1909-August 24, 1998 ), a dedicated political conservative, was a radio announcer, advertising writer, mayor of Phoenix, and the 13th governor of Arizona.

* Petrus Peregrinus = Peter de Maricourt, 13th century French writer on magnetism and astrolabes

Ramon Llull University is named after Ramon Llull, a famous writer and philosopher born in the 13th century.

Martin Gerbert ( August 11, 1720 – May 3, 1793 ), German theologian, historian and writer on music, belonged to the noble family of Gerbert von Hornau, and was born at Horb am Neckar, Württemberg, on the 12th ( or 11th or 13th ) of August 1720.