Composition and Manuscripts
The actual date of composition is estimated between the end of the twelfth to the beginning of the thirteenth centuries; and linguistic elements in the text indicate that the author may have come from Northern France or perhaps England. Since the text speaks of women poets, the poem could have been written by a woman.
The lai of Lecheor is contained in two existing manuscripts:
- MS Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. 1104 (in Old French)
- MS Uppsala, De la Gardie 4-7 (translation of the Old French into Old Norse)
The Old French manuscript dates from the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century.
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