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Bodel wrote the Chanson des Saisnes, about the war of King Charlemagne with the Saxons and their leader Widukind, whom Bodel calls Guiteclin. He also wrote a miracle play called the Jeu de Saint Nicolas, which tells a story of how St Nicholas forces some thieves to restore a stolen treasure.

Bodel was the first person of record to classify the legendary themes and literary cycles known to medieval literature into the Matter of Rome, tales of classical antiquity; the Matter of Britain, concering King ArthurKing Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Britain. He is the central character in Arthurian legends (known as the Matter of Britain), although there is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed and in the ea; and the Matter of FranceThe Matter of France is a body of mythology and legend that springs from the Old French medieval literature of the chansons de geste''. Its tales were first developed in these metrical romances; the stories they told lived on after the romances themselves, concerning Charlemagne and his paladinRoland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste''. For other uses of Paladin see Paladin (disambiguation). A paladin is the prototypical " knight in shining armour," a hero of sterling character and courage, who rights wrs.

In 1202Events August 1 Arthur of Brittany captured in Mirebeau, north of Poitiers Beginning of the Fourth Crusade. The chronicle of Roger of Wendover is of original value as of this year. Founding of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword Leonardo Fibonacci invents, Bodel contracted leprosy and entered a leprosarium.