Landrés rímur is a 15th century rímur cycle based on a part of Karlamagnús saga. It deals with the tribulations of Queen Ólíf and her son Landrés who are betrayed by the evil Mílon.[1] From the mansöngr 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.[2] The cycle was dated by Finnur Jónsson as "hardly younger than 1450"[3] and by Haukur Þorgeirsson to the period 1450–1500.[4] 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.[5]
References
edit- 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.