Chardri
Chardri was an Anglo-Norman poet, probably from western England. His pen name is probably an anagram of Richard.
Three of his poems, all in rhyming octosyllabic couplets, have survived. La vie de seint Josaphaz presents a Christianized version of the life of Buddha in 2,954 lines. La vie des set dormanz records the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in 1,898 lines. Both of these are hagiographic, but Le petit plet in 1,780 lines is didactic.Editions
- Cartlidge, Neil, ed. The Works of Chardri: "The Life of the Seven Sleepers", "The Life of St Josaphaz" and "The Little Debate": Three Poems in the French of Thirteenth-Century England. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.
- Merrilees, Brian S., ed. Le petit plet. Oxford: Blackwell, 1970.
- Merrilees, Brian S., ed. La vie des set dormanz. London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1977.
- Rutledge, Timothy James Stuart, ed. A Critical Edition of "La vie de seint Josaphaz", a Thirteenth-Century Poem by the Anglo-Norman Poet Chardri. PhD diss. University of Toronto, 1973.
