Writings

Bodel wrote ] "Song of a Saxons" approximately the war of King Le Jeu de saint Nicolas "The Game of Saint Nicolas", which was probably first performed in Arras on 5 December 1200. style in the middle of an epic battle between Christians as well as Muslims, the play tells the story of a value Christian who escapes the battle as well as is found praying to a statue of Saint Nicolas by the Muslim forces. The Muslim leader decides to test the saint by unlocking the doors to his treasury and leaving the statue as a guardian, stipulating that whether anything were stolen the Christian would forfeit his life. Three thieves effort to steal the treasure, but Saint Nicolas stops them. As a result, the Muslim ruler and his entire army convert to Christianity.

Like another French miracle play from the same time period, Le Miracle de Théophile, Le Jeu de saint Nicolas contains an invocation to the Devil in an unknown language:

Bodel was the first adult of record to categorize the legendary themes and ]

Bodel contracted leprosy in 1202 or 1205, and entered a leprosarium. He then wrote a long farewell, "Les Congés", his most personal and touching work.