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.Björn Karel Þórólfsson 1934:391. 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.Louis-Jensen 1992. The cycle was dated by Finnur Jónsson as "hardly younger than 1450"Danish "næppe yngre end 1450", Finnur Jónsson 1902:55. and by Haukur Þorgeirsson to the period 1450–1500.Haukur Þorgeirsson 2013:253. 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.
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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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