The Middle Ages, 476-1200
Northern Europe
- Beowulf (ca.800)
- The Mabinogion
- Icelandic Sagas
- Völsungasaga
- The Poetic Edda
- Snorri Sturluson, 1179-1241
- The Prose Edda
- The Nibelungenlied
- Wolfram von Eschenbach, 1170–1220
- Parzival
- Chrétien de Troyes, 12th cent
- Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
- The Lay of the Cid, 12th century
The Islamic World
- The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
- The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Firdausi (c.934 - 1020)
- The Epic of Kings
- Omar Khayyám, 1048-1122
- The Rubaiyat
- Sa'adi (1184-1283/1291?)
- The Gulistan
