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Wulfstan of Hedeby

800 - 850

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Wulfstan of Hedeby was a late ninth-century traveller and trader. His travel accounts, as well as those of another trader, Ohthere of Hålogaland, were included in the Old English Orosius. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wulfstan of Hedeby has received more than 76,351 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wulfstan of Hedeby is the 220th most popular explorer (down from 215th in 2019).

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  • 76k

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  • 53.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Wulfstan of Hedeby ranks 220 out of 405Before him are Jan Czerski, Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Alejandro Malaspina, René Caillié, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and Ruy López de Villalobos. After him are Lady Hester Stanhope, Julius Popper, Niccolò de' Conti, Nikolaus Federmann, Thorvald Asvaldsson, and Pedro Arias Dávila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 800, Wulfstan of Hedeby ranks 38Before him are Giustiniano Participazio, Aznar Galíndez I, Hildeprand, Ado of Vienne, Toktu of Bulgaria, and Nennius. After him are Eudokia, wife of Constantine V, Obelerio degli Antenori, Saraha, Agnello Participazio, Sabin of Bulgaria, and García Jiménez of Pamplona. Among people deceased in 850, Wulfstan of Hedeby ranks 4Before him are Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Ramiro I of Asturias, and Emperor Ninmyō.

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