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SUMMARY
The Llibre vermell is a miscellany copied at the monastery of Montserrat no later than
1399. Among its contents are ten songs to Latin and Catalan texts, including three cac-
cie, canons that can be sung in either two or three parts (21v–27r). One of these,
Laudemus virginem, appears as a contrafactum (Ó Jesú sjálfs gu›s son) with musical
notation in four Icelandic manuscripts, of which three transmit the music in two-part
polyphony: Rask 98 (ca. 1660–70), AM 102 8vo (ca. 1650–1700), and Lbs 495 8vo
(ca. 1750). One further manuscript transmits the Icelandic text without notation.
Unlike the original canon, the two voices sing together from start to finish in the
Icelandic two-part version. Musically, Ó Jesú sjálfs gu›s son is best described as a
Stimmtausch piece with a voice-exchange between the first and second phrase. The
third phrase bears the least resemblance to the original, and here each of the Icelandic
manuscripts contains a different version. The Icelandic texts, while similar in content,