''Landrés rímur'' is a 15th century ''

rímur In Icelandic literature, a ''ríma'' (, literally "a rhyme", pl. ''rímur'', ) is an epic poem written in any of the so-called ''rímnahættir'' (, "rímur meters"). They are rhymed, they alliterate and consist of two to four lines per stanza. T ...

'' cycle based on a part of

Karlamagnús saga The ''Karlamagnús saga'', ''Karlamagnussaga'' or ''Karlamagnus-saga'' (" saga of Charlemagne") was a late-thirteenth-century Norse prose compilation and adaptation, made for Haakon V of Norway, of the Old French '' chansons de geste'' of the Ma ...

. It deals with the tribulations of Queen Ólíf and her son Landrés who are betrayed by the evil Mílon. From the

mansöngr A ''mansǫngr'' (literally 'maiden-song'; plural ''mansǫngvar''; modern Icelandic ''mansöngur'', plural ''mansöngvar'') is a form of Norse poetry. In scholarly usage the term has often been applied to medieval skaldic love-poetry; and it is used ...

of the ''rímur'', it is clear that the author was a woman. This is the only known case of female authorship for a medieval ''rímur'' cycle. The cycle was dated by Finnur Jónsson as "hardly younger than 1450" and by Haukur Þorgeirsson to the period 1450–1500. The oldest surviving manuscript is the mid-16th century vellum manuscript Staðarhólsbók. The cycle was printed as part of Finnur Jónsson's ''Rímnasafn'' edition of the oldest ''rímur''.Finnur Jónsson 1913–1922:392–472.

References

Staðarhólsbók, AM 604 b 4to

Staðarhólsbók, AM 604 c 4to
* Björn Karel Þórólfsson. 1934. ''Rímur fyrir 1600''. Copenhagen. In Icelandic. * Finnur Jónsson. 1902. ''Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie''. Volume III. Copenhagen. In Danish. * Finnur Jónsson (editor). 1913–1922.
Rímnasafn
'. Volume II. Copenhagen. * Haukur Þorgeirsson. 2013
Hljóðkerfi og bragkerfi Stoðhljóð, tónkvæði og önnur úrlausnarefni í íslenskri bragsögu ásamt útgáfu á Rímum af Ormari Fraðmarssyni
Ph.D thesis, University of Iceland. In Icelandic. * Louis-Jensen, Jonna. 1992. "Om Ólíf og Landrés, vers og prosa samt kvinder og poeter". ''Eyvindarbók''. Oslo. In Danish.

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