I wonder sometimes if King Charles ponders these words in relation to Ms Mordaunt's theatrical part in his enthronement ceremony? He DOES have a reputation for having an ironic wit!
The thing is, in a medieval culture, yes, getting a sword from some magical girl would be reason to wield supreme power. They would probably say it was Mary baptising a sword for when Jesus came back or something equally silly. Plus, england lost the right to complain about a king. They can fight about it again though
@@RollingCalf No, it would have been religious propaganda manufactured post-facto to justify a king, but no one would believe that under the threat of violence was implicit. It is a completely stupid reason to bow to king.
Here what I see is often missed in this scene. The two peasants are muckrakers. They are gathering manure to sell as fertilizer. This is called muckraking. However, in modern times muckraking has anew meaning. Journalists who dig up dirt on politicians, expose corruption, etc, are also called muckrakers. So, the two peasants are literally muckrakers, in the older definition of the word. However, they are also muckrakers in the modern definition of the word, in they are exposing the violence inherent in the system.
I think it still stands that my all time favorite movie line is , “Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”
Right after: "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?" And "It is the rabbit!" And "Can't I have just a little peril?" And....oh hell, they're all golden!
@CaptainSkiMask I mean, someone's gotta shift the shit. It's an important job, disease would be rampant without it. Much more important for the day-to-day than whatever the king is doing in that scene.
I still remember an occasion back in the eighties when I was able to ask the late Arthurian Historian Geoffrey Ashe what he thought was the most accurate Arthurian movie ever made? Without hesitation, he answered "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
Haha, true! I'm always trying to explain to people who don't care about why Holy Grail is so accurate. My favorite example is when Lancelot just starts stabbing wedding guests. He does that in the stories! I mean, not that exactly, but he habitually falls asleep in other people's pavilions and then kills them when the rightful owner comes home and complains. Like more than once. WtF?!? Who would do that?
At least one major theoretician of anarchism, Petr Kropotkin, used medieval cities and guilds as models of autonomous or semi-autonomous rule. Runaway serfs typically fled to cities, regarding them as free places. See his "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution," published 1902.
Anarcho -syndicalism worked and thrived in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil war. It was hindered and suppressed by the Barcelona communists who were suspicious of anything that smacked of "deviationism".
@@fluffskunk Stalin cut his losses in 1938 and started making nice to Hitler. He called back all his operatives from Spain and many "disappeared" in the gulag.
@@ionidhunedoara1491 According to George Orwell, the soviets played a massive role in its collapse, 'prevent revolution or you get no weapons' was what he claimed they told the leftists in Spain. As Chomsky says, by 1938, USSR was a country with a revolutionary past, not a revolutionary future.
@@cam1149 Did Chomsky admit that USSR compromised the revolution even as early as 1921 as a result of the Kronshtat incident while Trotsky Lenin and Stalin were still good buddies.
@shawntailor5485 nah, the guy that wrote that wasn't even an anarchist, he was a grumpy trust fund college kid who was mad at the government. Also most if the explosives recipes and plans snf stuff don't work.
weirdly enough in the west somewhere in califorinia there was a guy that call himself emperor. known as Emperor Norton. the guy just told the local government that he was emperor and carry on his life as if he was one.
Seeing that most of the troupe were Cambridge educated why is this surprising? To say Terry Jone had studied up on Medieval history is a bit of an understatement, as he was one of the foremost experts on Chaucer and Her Royal Majesty's Expert on ancient documents.
I've never lived in medieval England, but I think Terry Jones got the visual appearance of that era 100% correct. He worked on all the Python team's movies such as The Jabberwocky and The Time Bandits.
Yes. Because people behave as if they are unaware of the consent derives from the people. They fight for it yet they quiver and succumb when the other side undermines them
And I'm sure if by some miracle they formed their republic, the newly made 'representatives' won't go chopping peoples heads like its a matter of k/d ratios
It is Neit? or Ní ? I think it's Ní (only because I speak Irish, and that would translate as 'The Knights Who Say No!") But hey, we are saying the same thing anyway :D
How can it be a 'fantasy land' if that type of thing actually happened? Plenty of examples of leaders believing in divine right. History is full of it. It's still around. It's reality. That's what is being ridiculed.
@@aevum6667 (1) Belief of leaders in divine will/right, and (2) the power of religious belief to control the masses, are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Wait that actually happened? A lord saying ''This shit is too much for me'' and abandoning his lands and titles to go live in a larger town as a commoner, or would he still be considered a landless noble?
уклоняющийся от своих обязанностей дворянин раньше лишался дворянства, если дворянин не платил королю дань деньгами и воинами то он лишался земель и титула, а без земель и титула человек мог быть безнаказанно убит и ограблен любым представителем закона.
@@alexanderfridayeagle9146 когда начинался институт аристократии то звание аристократа не предполагало безземельность, за заслуги перед королём давалась земля и титул, титул был неотъемлемой частью земли, граф таких-то земель, маркиз таких-то земель, принц таких-то земель.. титул был как как звание управляющего - управляющий такого-то отеля, управляющий такого-то завода, управляющий такого-то магазина.. когда аристократы теряли земли они шли на военную службу королю, где их либо убивали в походе/в бою, либо они получали новые завоёванные земли.
Not only that but he missed the whole point of that scene as being a mockery of modern anarcho socialist groups. Monty Python liked to make fun of that type of stuff.
@@Dainichi_Nyorai No, it was not! It was an explicit reformation. The HRE was founded on Christmas Day 800AD when the Pope crowned Charlemagne. There was no direct and contiguous line from either the Western or Eastern Roman Empire to Charlemagne. They attempted to frame themselves as the inheritors of the Western RE's mandate from God but they never claimed direct and contiguous lineage.
@@Dainichi_Nyorai a teacher gave me a memorable tidbit: "The Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy, wasn't Roman and was not an Empire". The line was not only factual, but gives a flavor of how fragile it was, but how much the state was justified by propaganda. When the masses are illiterate, and even the "emperor" Charlemagne was illiterate, naming was an exercise of power. The royals certainly wanted people to think it derived from the earlier Roman Empire, but that was a flimsy fiction.😊
Came here for Monty Python trivia, learned about some history of my own region. 😮 I'm from Hamburg and my grandparents lived in Hennstedt and later in Sankt Michaelisdonn which are both in Dithmarschen. 😅
As someone with ancestors from East Frisia I have heard about the Frisian Freedom before. But I didn't know how widespread peasant republics were in the swampy north of the Holy Roman Empire. I think one can assume that migration between the coastal area of north west continental Europe to England never stopped completely and that people arriving there at least tried to live as freely as they were used to.
"Wahr di Garr, de Bur kumt!" It's interesting, that you brought up Dithmarschen, because they were indeed the prime example of it I thought about as well. about 20 years ago I held a presentation about in our history lessons, using Age of Empires II screenshots to illustrate everything. There is much more to this peasant republic than you could do in your short video. How they fought for they land against King Johann I. in the battle of Hemmingstedt in the year 1500. They warned the peasants to obey the king, but as they refused, the king attacked with a massive army, including the infamous "Black Guard" mercenary force. "Wahr di Bur, de Garr kumt!" - "Beware peasant, the guard is coming!" But the military expedition failed miserably, and the black guard wasn't equipped to fight in the swamps, and of about 2000 guard fighters, 800 died and drowned within three hours in heavy armor. It ended in chaos and slaughter and the army of the King crumbled to nothing as the survivors fled in panic. The leaders of the "Black Guard" were killed and the organization was dissolved. The aristocratic cavalry forces tried to win the battle by them selves, but the farmers attacked the horses in the marshy lands and the noble knights died and drowned in large numbers as well, including many members of higher nobility of that region. The king had to withdraw, and the peasants flipped their battle slogan around: "Wahr di Garr, de Bur kumt!" - "Beware guard, the peasant is coming!" The Danish kingdom was so weakened, that as a consequence, the Swedish Kingdom could gain independence afterwards.
Yes, peasant republics where a thing in mediaval Europe, but Dithmarschen was not the only one. Iceland and the swiss Eidgenossenschaft come to mind, in Germany East-Frisia. All of these free peasants where subdued by territorial rulers sooner or later, though (the Swiss by local townspeople), except Dithmarschen's little known neighbour to the south. The Land Hadeln maintained it's selfadministration well into modern times, up to 1884!
Reminds me of the autonomous villages in medieval Japan, despite living in the realm of a Shugo Daimyo, they are almost entirely self-governing with a number of headmen deciding everyday affairs, the lords were only in charge when there was a border dispute, such as villages competing for streams or farmlands, which the lord would be responsible for declaring war to resolve the dispute, and these autonomous villages would provide footmen and supplies in exchange.
Sounds like an AA business meeting. It actually works until a "King Arthur" type arrives. But, they usually then get drunk and the problem goes away until they return with the appropriate amount of humility.
@@farwynd2925I mean it's basically the medieval equivalent of small socialist communities today, integrating communal elements into a feudalist or capitalist world
@@christopherwebber3804 Still, it's populated and built by French people. And I doubt any King Arthur stories ever retconned William the Bastard's conquest of England.
The sleights "Your mother was a hamster" and "Your father smells of Elderberries" could have been accurate too. Apparently the insult that 'she breeds like a hamster' was common. Also peasants, who could not buy wine from grapes, used to make bramble and elderberry wines. Smelling like elderberries was indicative of the peasant trade.
Except for the fact that hamsters are not a native British species and weren´t bred in the country (having been native to Syria) until 1939 - 100 years after they were first described when George Waterhouse came across them in Syria. So...."Your father was a hamster!" would have just baffled the person being insulted.
I'm pretty sure I've seen John Cleese asked about the elderberries thing. Apparently, elderberry was a common taste in cheap wines in the seventies in the UK.
Very interesting. But one thing: The name, Dithmarschen, of a region near Hamburg, is not pronounced with the "th" sound but with a simple "t". And to this day, the Dithmarschen people are renowned for their stubbornness and their independent spirit.
king arthur legend knights of round table gulden flees f⋇lat e⋇arth shambala mount zion north pole beneath polaris land of the midnight sun 4 rivers go in earth green meadows lakes mercurius is sun and moon there double function we can´t go there anymore just like that no that was
You also have the republics in northern Italy as an example. And they were very prosperous. They also beat emperor Barbarossa at the battle of Legnano and forced him to recognize their autonomy.
@@nospoon4799 "Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!" Mainstream media pushing ONLY the government's agenda on COVID, social media posts challenging it being deleted, persistant posters' accounts suspended. Yes, it's still happening!
@@answerman9933 - The coconut shells are satire ... BUT ... yes, especially Henry II were well known as travelers, running tours up and down the country-side keeping his barons in line ... the movie was set in the times the legend was written, political spin for the French Invaders ... "Of course Author was Occitanian, just like Richard the Lionheart" ...
Dithmarsh lasted longer than America has existed so far. Imagine the culture of Dithmarsh, even as a smaller society, imagine if it simply grew bigger.
What these anarchists don't seem to understand is that this system is destined to collapse as centralization becomes easier, Dithmarshen was able to exist for so long because of its Marshy terrain, which was useful in keeping outsiders away
@@gabrielethier2046 "What these democratic republicans don't seem to understand is that this system is destined to collapse as centralization becomes easier, the USA was able to exist for so long because of its spread out population, which was useful in making more centralized authority impractical"
@@aevum6667 that comparison is ridiculous because they each have a proper functioning state to effectively defend their interest, but even if I granted you that, which I'm fine with doing considering the fact the US does in reality trend towards more centralized control, what of it?
There's nothing to imagine. Just look at what happened in northern Italy. The italian part of the HRE was de-facto independent from the imperial authority due to geographical distance, wich allowed cities like Milan and Bologna to become extremely prosperous, far prosperous than any other cities in the german parts of the empire, wich led emperor Barbarossa to directly impose his authority on them, these cities however banded together and crushed Barbarossa's army at Legnano, forcing him to officially recognise their autonomy. This is what made the italian Reanaissance possible.
So Dithmarschen was also the inspiration for swamp castle. All the other lords thought I was daft building a castle in a swamp and it sank into the swamp so I built another and it sank into the swamp so I built a third and it burned down then sank into the swamp, but the fourth, the fourth one stood!
As one of the most humorous scenes in the movie, it had me laughing out loud in my seat at the movie theatre. All of us in our group laughed throughout the whole movie, beginning with the opening credits. I saw The Holy Grail in high school at age 16. "Bravely ran Sir Robin! ..."
@@SiiriCressey: I can't speak for OP, but most anarchists that I know have a sense of humour. It helps that the jokes are on point, not the usual ways people try to make fun of anarchists, but addressing the things that we actually do: the convoluted forms of governance to try to avoid letting any one person or group take power; debates over the primacy of class, race, etc as a form of oppression; whether to get on with the work or focus on talking and debating. And anyway, Dennis may be high-strung, but he's right.
@@SiiriCressey : Yes, the woman only argues with Arthur when he's trying to interfere with their work, while Dennis goes on arguing even after Arthur starts leaving, provoking him into physically attacking him so that he can show everyone ‘the violence inherent in the system’. (I don't know how much of that was deliberate on the part of the Pythons, but that's how I see it. There's a more explicit satire of talk-talk-talk in _Life of Brian,_ although that's patterned more on Maoist parties than anarcho-syndicalist communes.)
He MIGHT have been able to guess from the word itself; Excalibur, or Ex Caliburn, means "from Caliburn" (as Ex Libris, from the library, automatically indicates "book") so he could tell somebody made it and Caliburn was a nickname for Blacksmiths in general, so Blacksmith - metal - guy in armour - weapon - he's obviously got a sword with him - Excalibur is a sword, QED. Whatever else he was, Dennis wasn't stupid or unobservant! Or am I overthinking this and stretching too much..?
The audience doesn't need to be told Excalibur is a sword. And it could have been even more famous in its own time. Of course, that does make it even weirder that they haven't heard of the man who wields it.
I have just a few problems with this video. It seems the maker confuses the Holy Roman Empire with the actual Roman Empire. He has added footage of ancient first century Romans and ancient first century Germanic tribes. This is not at all what people looked like in the 13th century. The maker would have done better by adding footage of proper Medieval reenactment groups.
I think given the poor communications and travel that existed centuries ago. It would have been far from impossible for isolated communities to live for decades as subjects of governments they have no idea even existed!
Right now in these modern times, with jet aircraft overhead and satellites having mapped basically every square meter of the Earth's surface, there exist a people called the "North Sentinelese", it's just that they don't know they are called that because they haven't had a conversation with the outside world in maybe tens of thousands of years. Very, VERY loosely speaking they are under the laws of the Indian government, but they don't know that, or that an Indian government exists, or a place called "India", either. The whole world is the island they live on, and everything from outside is unknown, not wanted and pretty violently resisted. They are very truly an Autonomous Collective!
My late brother Anthony, lived with Chumbawumba before they sold out. It was an anarcho-syndicate by design and they all worked hard for each other and were happy hippies.
But then you will conquer them, and handfuls of your group will become rich and powerful, while keeping you in your place, again, then..........................................
As a kid i had a wonderful history teacher. He played this scene to us dummies and we really had no idea what was going on in it. We were dumb. Then he told us of "how things were back then" history lessons. Then he played the scene again. We were all laughing so hard. He gave us a context of the commentary and made it absolutely TEACHABLE. Thank you Mr. Gallagher!
Yes, the "Holy Roman Empire" was not the "Roman Empire". It probably wasn't particularly Holy or even much of an Empire either. Use of "Holy Roman Empire" would be a bit like modern Britain deciding to call itself "The Devine Indian Empire" on the basis of having conquered it a few centuries ago. I was puzzled by reference to Romans, with footage of marching Roman soldiers (presumably modern people re-enacting Roman soldiers rather than 2000 year old film footage).
King Arthur didn't live in the Medieval period. He was a mythical king from the Dark Ages around 400AD, getting on for a thousand years earlier. This was before kings really existed so I guess a lot of people just lived in patriarchal tribes.
There are some mistakes in this video… for one, there wasn’t the typical „tax collector” in medieval times. Taxes were largely payed in the form of natural goods (at least before the 15th century) directly to the lord. Thus your statement suggesting that “they would be left alone without a lord as long as they paid their taxes” is illogical. Also, those peasants that “had a disdain for the monarchy” largely had a disdain FOR THE INDIVIDUAL MONARCH, not the title or concept of a king in and of itself.
There's a great song by Screeching Weasel called: Come See the Violence Inherent in the System. I saw this movie decades before the song came out, but I haven't got an idydic memory, so I had a eureka moment when I realized
Sounds like a modern-day Body Corporate, you have a seven-person Committee to represent the owners for smaller day-to-day matters, and once every year for major votes you need a minimum amount of owners to vote (quorum), and finally, a new committee is voted in.
Here's a little Easter egg most will miss. Here's the line: "If I went around saying I was Emperor just 'cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!" Even as a teenager in the theatre back then I thought that was an odd but clever line. In Grail lore, out of place. And how does Denis even know what an emperor is, let alone know what a scimitar is? Back then emperors were from the exotic East. Big fighting blades were swords. Denis would know royalty as monarchs and kings. The movie gives a nod to origins of the myth of Arthur's magical sword. Even though Excalibur is not a scimitar, that is where the word comes from. Years ago I heard a lecture on ancient Arab metallurgy where the lecturer made an astonishing observation. The Arabic word qalib (or calibre) means "a mold for casting." And as I recall, the hilts of scimitars were cast separately from the blade and then the near finished blade was inserted into the hilt mold while the metal was still liquid, thus fusing the two items together. (or the blade was already in the mold when poured...it was a long time ago). The important part of the process came when the mold was broken open and the whole sword revealed. And that revealing in the Persian was called "Exqalib" or in the French, ex-calibre - in English, Excalibur !!! This is another part of the Arthurian legend. The important sword encased in stone that must be successfully removed. Thus, Arthur's sword is special because it was of a technology that Europeans and the British could not duplicate. The blade, if it existed, would have been razor sharp ultra thin Damascus steel, and the hilt custom formed and perfectly attached. A sword so well balanced it could be wielded faster and more accurately in battle than any other, and so sharp it would cut armour like butter. To the backwater Brittons of the 900's, Excalibur was a technological marvel. And today a Monty Python and the Holy Grail Easter egg.
not quite, as these guys might actually have some legal standing. in the present day all land is accounted for and there is not free land to soveriegn on.
@@cocoadragon8554 I mean, if you live in Antarctica outside of active research stations or that one Chilean town, or just float about in international waters, you might get away with a form of sovereignty depending on what exactly you're doing with it
This scene might be my favorite scene in not just any comedy movie but any movie period. Having read the People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn it got me thinking that if America has so much lost history that most people have no idea about doesn't it stand to reason that there is a HUGE amount of lost world history too? The ideas that brought about an end to feudalism can not possibly have come from the ruling class within feudalism. Yes I know about the Enlightenment era & Locke etc BUT I can't help but shake the feeling that even that has tons of lost history too. So yeah I absolutely believe that there were MANY different versions of Dennis not just in England but everywhere at many points in history.
History is written by the winners, those psychos on top. The more of a sociopath you are, the more authority you claim. In the case of monarchs, the inbreeding, isolation, and uncertainty may have contributed to the mental instability of more than a few.
The Peasant War in Germany even had a "black bloc" and "no gods no masters" (Florian Geyers Black Company and his sword allegedly having "Nulla Crux Nulla Corona" - neither cross nor crown - written on it) - Then Martin Luther betrayed them.
Honestly, as I've gotten older, Dennis more and more has seemed like the reasonable one in the situation. Imagine you're just out there doing your digging and some dude comes up to you and starts acting like he's in charge of you. Then he attacks you when you refuse to acknowledge the frankly absurd claim to authority he says he has over you.
And I have been listening to a podcast on the history of science in the Middle Ages.... Not as dark or as dumb as we've been led to believe! Great and funny examination.
You should do a video on Mel Brooks. Im not sure if the sarcastic condescending narration tone is on purpose or not, but it was just another layer of humor for me. The last time someone talked at me this way was my vice principal in 6th grade. Great vid man, keep it up. Earned an easy sub with this one. 🤙
I have never doubted that Monty Python and the Holy Grail - along with all other Monty Python films - are anything other than absolutely representative of the times they portray!
"You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
I wonder sometimes if King Charles ponders these words in relation to Ms Mordaunt's theatrical part in his enthronement ceremony? He DOES have a reputation for having an ironic wit!
IF I went round saying I was emperor because some moistened bint tossed a scimitar at me they would put me away
The thing is... Now he has a sword, and you don't. :P
The thing is, in a medieval culture, yes, getting a sword from some magical girl would be reason to wield supreme power. They would probably say it was Mary baptising a sword for when Jesus came back or something equally silly.
Plus, england lost the right to complain about a king. They can fight about it again though
@@RollingCalf No, it would have been religious propaganda manufactured post-facto to justify a king, but no one would believe that under the threat of violence was implicit. It is a completely stupid reason to bow to king.
Here what I see is often missed in this scene. The two peasants are muckrakers. They are gathering manure to sell as fertilizer. This is called muckraking.
However, in modern times muckraking has anew meaning. Journalists who dig up dirt on politicians, expose corruption, etc, are also called muckrakers.
So, the two peasants are literally muckrakers, in the older definition of the word.
However, they are also muckrakers in the modern definition of the word, in they are exposing the violence inherent in the system.
The collective was called the diggers.
"Yellow Beard ", adorable little girl on the street, " farthing for a lump of shit, Sir?"
@@nospoon4799 YES!
Manure, or just plain old lovely filth? Seeing this movie is still one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Keen observation!
"Come and see the violence inherent on the system. Help, help, I'm being repressed" might be the greatest line in movie history.
You saw him repressing me, didn't you?!
@@ricstormwolfThe ENTIRE SCENE is MOVIE GOLD!! EVERY line, like most in Holy Grail, is incredibly timely & quotable!
I literally fell under the table after seeing this.
i dont know
"That bastard shot my lunch!" was a pretty good line
Just because some watery tart threw you a sword....😅
I think it still stands that my all time favorite movie line is , “Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”
In all honesty, I think it's my all time favourite movie line too!
@@Nightshft42 Blasphemy! BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!
I concur
Behold our civilized western world....my god what an idiots we are....
Right after: "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?" And "It is the rabbit!" And "Can't I have just a little peril?" And....oh hell, they're all golden!
"What I object to is that you automatically treat me as an inferior."
Well, I am your king.
@@mystreteacher "Well I AM king"!
@@samr.england613 African release or European release?
@@mystreteacher …I don’t know that- **the hand of God tosses me into the bottomless pit**
@CaptainSkiMask I mean, someone's gotta shift the shit. It's an important job, disease would be rampant without it. Much more important for the day-to-day than whatever the king is doing in that scene.
I still remember an occasion back in the eighties when I was able to ask the late Arthurian Historian Geoffrey Ashe what he thought was the most accurate Arthurian movie ever made? Without hesitation, he answered "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
If only for the line about how we know that Arthur was the king because he was the only one who didn't have sh*t all over him.
Haha, true! I'm always trying to explain to people who don't care about why Holy Grail is so accurate. My favorite example is when Lancelot just starts stabbing wedding guests. He does that in the stories! I mean, not that exactly, but he habitually falls asleep in other people's pavilions and then kills them when the rightful owner comes home and complains. Like more than once. WtF?!? Who would do that?
A biblical scholar I know says a similar thing for the politics of the Holy Land in Life Of Brian.
@@nospam3327no wait what? Lancelot was a slasher?
On second thought, Camelot is a silly place...
I think Dennis is quite sane and logical actually
Based Anarco-pythonism
That's good
Well im an AnSyn so I agree
Anarcho-syndicalism with pond characteristics
Then you're an anarchist. Welcome
At least one major theoretician of anarchism, Petr Kropotkin, used medieval cities and guilds as models of autonomous or semi-autonomous rule. Runaway serfs typically fled to cities, regarding them as free places. See his "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution," published 1902.
Anarcho -syndicalism worked and thrived in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil war. It was hindered and suppressed by the Barcelona communists who were suspicious of anything that smacked of "deviationism".
@@ionidhunedoara1491 When Stalin's picking winners and losers, you're gonna have a bad revolution.
@@fluffskunk Stalin cut his losses in 1938 and started making nice to Hitler. He called back all his operatives from Spain and many "disappeared" in the gulag.
@@ionidhunedoara1491 According to George Orwell, the soviets played a massive role in its collapse, 'prevent revolution or you get no weapons' was what he claimed they told the leftists in Spain. As Chomsky says, by 1938, USSR was a country with a revolutionary past, not a revolutionary future.
@@cam1149 Did Chomsky admit that USSR compromised the revolution even as early as 1921 as a result of the Kronshtat incident while Trotsky Lenin and Stalin were still good buddies.
"Suddenly, strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, seems like an increasingly viable basis, as a form of government"
We need watery tarts
@@patriottothecore6215 And moist bints.
Where is this quote from?
@@pyropulseIXXI Online meme
At this point, it’d be just as well.
Damn, every anarchist I know loves the scene as comedy gold.
Me THREE !
Yup
But no cookbook ?
Monty python , first few times puffin , lmao into coma land . Great memories!
@shawntailor5485 nah, the guy that wrote that wasn't even an anarchist, he was a grumpy trust fund college kid who was mad at the government. Also most if the explosives recipes and plans snf stuff don't work.
If I went around saying I was Emperor just 'cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Shut Up!
Got to watch out for them watery tarts
LOL, love the comments
Have you tried being born in a manger?
weirdly enough in the west somewhere in califorinia there was a guy that call himself emperor. known as Emperor Norton. the guy just told the local government that he was emperor and carry on his life as if he was one.
A reminder everyone. 'Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist" is now Sir Michael Edward Palin. I guess he got tired of all that lovely filth
I think it was Abbie Hoffman who said ..." Do YOUR Thing until you get Rich, Then do Their Thing !
I bet he misses that lovely filth...
Satire
I read his diaries in prison. Cleese was right, they were bloody boring.
Naturally. 'Twas but a silly, passing fetish.
Gotta love a scholarly dissection of the funniest scene in cinema.
Lol I was just looking for the scene. Now I'm watching it picked apart.😂
I’m with you on this.
And it was always why this scene was so funny.
Juxtaposition of simple comedy with some serious truths.
Seeing that most of the troupe were Cambridge educated why is this surprising? To say Terry Jone had studied up on Medieval history is a bit of an understatement, as he was one of the foremost experts on Chaucer and Her Royal Majesty's Expert on ancient documents.
I've never lived in medieval England, but I think Terry Jones got the visual appearance of that era 100% correct. He worked on all the Python team's movies such as The Jabberwocky and The Time Bandits.
Most of them were Cambridge educated? 3 is not most of 6. Jones and Palin went to Oxford.
@@igrim4777 Is this the right room for an argument?
Is it a five-minute argument or the full half hour?
@@igrim4777 3 of 6 is half which is most...
@@TheDude-no8huNo, it's half. Most is more than half.
That's splitting hairs really, but still.
The king attacking Dennis is not crazy at all. Quite realistic of how governments react to those that don't follow the line.
when someone says: "give me liberty or give me death" the state is very happy to respond with the latter.
America is going through that now.
Smash the woke
Yes. Because people behave as if they are unaware of the consent derives from the people. They fight for it yet they quiver and succumb when the other side undermines them
And I'm sure if by some miracle they formed their republic, the newly made 'representatives' won't go chopping peoples heads like its a matter of k/d ratios
Those fearsome knights are actually saying "NEIT" which the Netherlanders would exclaim if their shrubberies were being trampled.
It is Neit? or Ní ? I think it's Ní (only because I speak Irish, and that would translate as 'The Knights Who Say No!") But hey, we are saying the same thing anyway :D
Depends if there are nice shrubberies and not too expensive.
Do they also chop down the largest tree in the forest, with.... A HERRING! In the Netherlands too?
As a Netherlander I exclaim "NIET", it's not "NEIT". Mayhap thou mistaketh the Netherlander for the German who exclaims "NEIN"!
They’re saying ni, as in the n word
2:11 well, i didn't vote for you.(love the scene)
Dennis is the sane one , the king is living in fantasy land ... I want a sword now .
How can it be a 'fantasy land' if that type of thing actually happened? Plenty of examples of leaders believing in divine right. History is full of it. It's still around. It's reality. That's what is being ridiculed.
@@David_Span How many of those leaders even believed in divine right and how many of them used general ignorance to their advantage?
@@aevum6667 (1) Belief of leaders in divine will/right, and (2) the power of religious belief to control the masses, are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Wait that actually happened? A lord saying ''This shit is too much for me'' and abandoning his lands and titles to go live in a larger town as a commoner, or would he still be considered a landless noble?
Landless noble
Yes. He would have the problem that he couldn't do a lot of jobs as a noble.
уклоняющийся от своих обязанностей дворянин раньше лишался дворянства,
если дворянин не платил королю дань деньгами и воинами то он лишался земель и титула,
а без земель и титула человек мог быть безнаказанно убит и ограблен любым представителем закона.
@@unokarpa4405 а если просто без земли, он пака считается аристократ?
@@alexanderfridayeagle9146
когда начинался институт аристократии то звание аристократа не предполагало безземельность,
за заслуги перед королём давалась земля и титул, титул был неотъемлемой частью земли, граф таких-то земель, маркиз таких-то земель, принц таких-то земель.. титул был как как звание управляющего - управляющий такого-то отеля, управляющий такого-то завода, управляющий такого-то магазина..
когда аристократы теряли земли они шли на военную службу королю, где их либо убивали в походе/в бою, либо они получали новые завоёванные земли.
5:18 - "The peasants are revolting!"
"You said it! They stink on ice!" - Mel Brooks, "History of the World Part I"
This video is sooooo important because Monty Python was making a historical drama.
Just like Netflix
@@ralfdunkel6266 or the History Channel
If only the important videos existed, we'd have a much smaller, much duller internet.
6:25 Imagine being a history channel and mistaking the Holy Roman Empire for the Roman Empire
He keeps doing it. I feel like hes doing it on purpose to drive engagement and views
Not only that but he missed the whole point of that scene as being a mockery of modern anarcho socialist groups. Monty Python liked to make fun of that type of stuff.
Just to be pedantic, The Holy Roman Empire was the Roman Empire, according to their line of succession.
@@Dainichi_Nyorai No, it was not! It was an explicit reformation. The HRE was founded on Christmas Day 800AD when the Pope crowned Charlemagne. There was no direct and contiguous line from either the Western or Eastern Roman Empire to Charlemagne. They attempted to frame themselves as the inheritors of the Western RE's mandate from God but they never claimed direct and contiguous lineage.
@@Dainichi_Nyorai a teacher gave me a memorable tidbit: "The Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy, wasn't Roman and was not an Empire". The line was not only factual, but gives a flavor of how fragile it was, but how much the state was justified by propaganda. When the masses are illiterate, and even the "emperor" Charlemagne was illiterate, naming was an exercise of power. The royals certainly wanted people to think it derived from the earlier Roman Empire, but that was a flimsy fiction.😊
Came here for Monty Python trivia, learned about some history of my own region. 😮
I'm from Hamburg and my grandparents lived in Hennstedt and later in Sankt Michaelisdonn which are both in Dithmarschen. 😅
As someone with ancestors from East Frisia I have heard about the Frisian Freedom before. But I didn't know how widespread peasant republics were in the swampy north of the Holy Roman Empire. I think one can assume that migration between the coastal area of north west continental Europe to England never stopped completely and that people arriving there at least tried to live as freely as they were used to.
"Wahr di Garr, de Bur kumt!"
It's interesting, that you brought up Dithmarschen, because they were indeed the prime example of it I thought about as well. about 20 years ago I held a presentation about in our history lessons, using Age of Empires II screenshots to illustrate everything. There is much more to this peasant republic than you could do in your short video. How they fought for they land against King Johann I. in the battle of Hemmingstedt in the year 1500. They warned the peasants to obey the king, but as they refused, the king attacked with a massive army, including the infamous "Black Guard" mercenary force. "Wahr di Bur, de Garr kumt!" - "Beware peasant, the guard is coming!"
But the military expedition failed miserably, and the black guard wasn't equipped to fight in the swamps, and of about 2000 guard fighters, 800 died and drowned within three hours in heavy armor.
It ended in chaos and slaughter and the army of the King crumbled to nothing as the survivors fled in panic. The leaders of the "Black Guard" were killed and the organization was dissolved.
The aristocratic cavalry forces tried to win the battle by them selves, but the farmers attacked the horses in the marshy lands and the noble knights died and drowned in large numbers as well, including many members of higher nobility of that region.
The king had to withdraw, and the peasants flipped their battle slogan around: "Wahr di Garr, de Bur kumt!" - "Beware guard, the peasant is coming!"
The Danish kingdom was so weakened, that as a consequence, the Swedish Kingdom could gain independence afterwards.
Yes, peasant republics where a thing in mediaval Europe, but Dithmarschen was not the only one. Iceland and the swiss Eidgenossenschaft come to mind, in Germany East-Frisia. All of these free peasants where subdued by territorial rulers sooner or later, though (the Swiss by local townspeople), except Dithmarschen's little known neighbour to the south. The Land Hadeln maintained it's selfadministration well into modern times, up to 1884!
"All the other kings said I was DAFT to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em!"
Runaway, runaway!!
Very interesting
@@MrFusselig *WOW!* That is fantastic.
Reminds me of the autonomous villages in medieval Japan, despite living in the realm of a Shugo Daimyo, they are almost entirely self-governing with a number of headmen deciding everyday affairs, the lords were only in charge when there was a border dispute, such as villages competing for streams or farmlands, which the lord would be responsible for declaring war to resolve the dispute, and these autonomous villages would provide footmen and supplies in exchange.
That sounds just like early feudalism
Sounds like an AA business meeting. It actually works until a "King Arthur" type arrives. But, they usually then get drunk and the problem goes away until they return with the appropriate amount of humility.
@@farwynd2925I mean it's basically the medieval equivalent of small socialist communities today, integrating communal elements into a feudalist or capitalist world
1:35 "Monty Python is set in AD 932, in England" - Proceeds to cut to B-roll of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Frenchiest castle ever.
Are you sure it isn't St Michael's Mount, in Cornwall?
Nah nah nah coz the police had to arrest that knight for killing the historian 🤗
True today, but wasn't it ruled by lords who owed their loyalty to the English king for quite a long time?
@@christopherwebber3804 Still, it's populated and built by French people. And I doubt any King Arthur stories ever retconned William the Bastard's conquest of England.
@@syntheretique385 Who is your lord?
The sleights "Your mother was a hamster" and "Your father smells of Elderberries" could have been accurate too.
Apparently the insult that 'she breeds like a hamster' was common. Also peasants, who could not buy wine from grapes, used to make bramble and elderberry wines. Smelling like elderberries was indicative of the peasant trade.
Or of being a drunk.
again overthought
elderberries is a delicious thing to smell like
Except for the fact that hamsters are not a native British species and weren´t bred in the country (having been native to Syria) until 1939 - 100 years after they were first described when George Waterhouse came across them in Syria. So...."Your father was a hamster!" would have just baffled the person being insulted.
I'm pretty sure I've seen John Cleese asked about the elderberries thing. Apparently, elderberry was a common taste in cheap wines in the seventies in the UK.
I knew the commentary would be golden and it exceeded my expectations.
0:24 Is that the aptly named Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film?!
One of my college professors played us this scene and we discussed it for the exact reasons mentioned in this video.
Very interesting. But one thing: The name, Dithmarschen, of a region near Hamburg, is not pronounced with the "th" sound but with a simple "t". And to this day, the Dithmarschen people are renowned for their stubbornness and their independent spirit.
Yes, same rule as in "Beethoven."
You learn something everyday.... thank you.
Propably because all the independent blood wasent executed out of the genepool.
So are the Spanish. Their history is rich in anarchism.
And their Red Necks ?!
Royalty is just code for gangster family.
Based.
True as heck, 'noble lords' were just warlords.
@@zacharyb2723 the trick is to stay warlord long enough to become indespensable to the pope...
king arthur legend knights of round table gulden flees f⋇lat e⋇arth shambala mount zion north pole beneath polaris land of the midnight sun 4 rivers go in earth green meadows lakes mercurius is sun and moon there double function
we can´t go there anymore just like that no that was
And if you became King, would you declare your kingdom a democracy and abdicate? Or would you be the next gangster? I think we both know the answer.
You also have the republics in northern Italy as an example. And they were very prosperous. They also beat emperor Barbarossa at the battle of Legnano and forced him to recognize their autonomy.
"I mean, if I went 'round, saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
The intelligence of pythons humor is often overlooked !
Really? In fact the opposite is true.
Be quiet. I order you to be quiet.
Ordering? Who does he think he is.
Things never change in Britain.
@@nospoon4799 "Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!"
Mainstream media pushing ONLY the government's agenda on COVID,
social media posts challenging it being deleted,
persistant posters' accounts suspended.
Yes, it's still happening!
How do you know he's a king?
He's the only one not covered in shit.
Dude, you're incredibly underrated. Keep up the great work!
Why wouldnt it be accurate? Or informed enough to be satire? Terry Jones and Michael Palin both had history degrees from Oxford.
Do Tell !!
@@jollyjoker888 Wikipedia would probably tell you everything you want to know.
Did kings also roam the lands with a squire who mimicked the sounds of horse hooves?
@@answerman9933 Everything is possible in the multiverse ...
@@answerman9933 - The coconut shells are satire ... BUT ... yes, especially Henry II were well known as travelers, running tours up and down the country-side keeping his barons in line ... the movie was set in the times the legend was written, political spin for the French Invaders ... "Of course Author was Occitanian, just like Richard the Lionheart" ...
This is just a fancy excuse to go watch the movie again. Which I shall.
❤
This will give you a chance to count how many real horses were in the movie :)
I don't need an excuse. Just can't find a swallow
Dennis was just ahead of his time , and unafraid of articulating his principles .
One line about the “king” is undoubtably true. The comment “I didn’t vote for you” is true for any king
Though some kings are elected
not true. kings were often elected granted not by peasants but by other lords.
@@jebise1126so 99% of the population could still say I didn't vote for you
Dithmarsh lasted longer than America has existed so far. Imagine the culture of Dithmarsh, even as a smaller society, imagine if it simply grew bigger.
What these anarchists don't seem to understand is that this system is destined to collapse as centralization becomes easier, Dithmarshen was able to exist for so long because of its Marshy terrain, which was useful in keeping outsiders away
Not really. They were conquered by the nearby bishopric a few decades later
@@gabrielethier2046 "What these democratic republicans don't seem to understand is that this system is destined to collapse as centralization becomes easier, the USA was able to exist for so long because of its spread out population, which was useful in making more centralized authority impractical"
@@aevum6667 that comparison is ridiculous because they each have a proper functioning state to effectively defend their interest, but even if I granted you that, which I'm fine with doing considering the fact the US does in reality trend towards more centralized control, what of it?
There's nothing to imagine. Just look at what happened in northern Italy. The italian part of the HRE was de-facto independent from the imperial authority due to geographical distance, wich allowed cities like Milan and Bologna to become extremely prosperous, far prosperous than any other cities in the german parts of the empire, wich led emperor Barbarossa to directly impose his authority on them, these cities however banded together and crushed Barbarossa's army at Legnano, forcing him to officially recognise their autonomy. This is what made the italian Reanaissance possible.
So Dithmarschen was also the inspiration for swamp castle. All the other lords thought I was daft building a castle in a swamp and it sank into the swamp so I built another and it sank into the swamp so I built a third and it burned down then sank into the swamp, but the fourth, the fourth one stood!
I had forgotten that scene😂Thank you,kind stranger I've had an awful day!
@@hughgabin8068 I hope today is better my friend!
But to do that you need Huge "tracts of land".
And it still stands to this day! .....at least the parts that haven't sank into the swamp.
As one of the most humorous scenes in the movie, it had me laughing out loud in my seat at the movie theatre. All of us in our group laughed throughout the whole movie, beginning with the opening credits. I saw The Holy Grail in high school at age 16.
"Bravely ran Sir Robin! ..."
These groups were either killed, enslaved, or pledged fealty to a lord for protection from the first two options.
One thing that everyone misses is that Dennis knows what Excalibur is.
I always wondered about this. I'm so glad I found this. Very cool! Thank you.
What a clever video. It manages to be informative and funny at the same time. Well worth 10 minutes of my life. 👍
as an anarchist i absolutely adore this scene
Even though it's kind of making fun of you + yours?
@@SiiriCressey: I can't speak for OP, but most anarchists that I know have a sense of humour. It helps that the jokes are on point, not the usual ways people try to make fun of anarchists, but addressing the things that we actually do: the convoluted forms of governance to try to avoid letting any one person or group take power; debates over the primacy of class, race, etc as a form of oppression; whether to get on with the work or focus on talking and debating. And anyway, Dennis may be high-strung, but he's right.
@@tobybartels8426 Hmm, let me guess: Dennis = talk talk talk, woman (is she named? I don't remember) = get on with the work?
@@SiiriCressey : Yes, the woman only argues with Arthur when he's trying to interfere with their work, while Dennis goes on arguing even after Arthur starts leaving, provoking him into physically attacking him so that he can show everyone ‘the violence inherent in the system’. (I don't know how much of that was deliberate on the part of the Pythons, but that's how I see it. There's a more explicit satire of talk-talk-talk in _Life of Brian,_ although that's patterned more on Maoist parties than anarcho-syndicalist communes.)
@@SiiriCressey as an anarchist, it's an amazing scene. Dude is spitting straight fire while stacking literal dirt, it's absolutely amazing.
Christ imagine going to this film for the first time with the narrator
I cackled!
I like that you refuse to call the Roman Empire "Holy".
I want to know who told Dennis that Excalibur was a sword..?
Merlin, you berk.
The script ...
@@paulohagan3309 Dingo from Castle Anthrax.
He MIGHT have been able to guess from the word itself; Excalibur, or Ex Caliburn, means "from Caliburn" (as Ex Libris, from the library, automatically indicates "book") so he could tell somebody made it and Caliburn was a nickname for Blacksmiths in general, so Blacksmith - metal - guy in armour - weapon - he's obviously got a sword with him - Excalibur is a sword, QED.
Whatever else he was, Dennis wasn't stupid or unobservant!
Or am I overthinking this and stretching too much..?
The audience doesn't need to be told Excalibur is a sword. And it could have been even more famous in its own time.
Of course, that does make it even weirder that they haven't heard of the man who wields it.
1:36 "set in 932 ad england" as they show mt st michel in france
Great fun to consider this! The best humor has more than a kernel of truth
I can't really take this serious after you showed footage of the Romans of old XD
I remember the thread on r/AskHistorians. Brilliant video!
“I am your king!”
“Well I didn’t vote for you.”
One of my favorite lines. 😂
You don't vote for kings!
I agree in your general direction, sir!
One day, students will have this to watch and to learn how several layers of the comedy goes together in the same time.
I have just a few problems with this video. It seems the maker confuses the Holy Roman Empire with the actual Roman Empire. He has added footage of ancient first century Romans and ancient first century Germanic tribes. This is not at all what people looked like in the 13th century. The maker would have done better by adding footage of proper Medieval reenactment groups.
You're right but maybe that was all the footage they could find
on a budget just like the movie
It is refreshing to find a RUclips video that is actually interesting and new
good job 👍
What an absolutely,, wonderfully absurdist conception! Just remembering the first time viewing it with hysterical laughter.
@@stuartnorman8713 You think autonomous egalitarian communities are absurd?
The mark of a good king is not how many obey him, but how many love him.
I think given the poor communications and travel that existed centuries ago. It would have been far from impossible for isolated communities to live for decades as subjects of governments they have no idea even existed!
Right now in these modern times, with jet aircraft overhead and satellites having mapped basically every square meter of the Earth's surface, there exist a people called the "North Sentinelese", it's just that they don't know they are called that because they haven't had a conversation with the outside world in maybe tens of thousands of years. Very, VERY loosely speaking they are under the laws of the Indian government, but they don't know that, or that an Indian government exists, or a place called "India", either.
The whole world is the island they live on, and everything from outside is unknown, not wanted and pretty violently resisted.
They are very truly an Autonomous Collective!
If the government that claims you as a subject isn't taxing and enslaving you, are you really its subject?
My late brother Anthony, lived with Chumbawumba before they sold out. It was an anarcho-syndicate by design and they all worked hard for each other and were happy hippies.
Bring on the revolution, eat the rich.
Shut up and join the Marxist camp.
@@AsadAli-jc5tg No more like joining The Murray Bookchin Camp. You missed the message.
sic semper tyrannis (im ancap)
I'm a vegetarian...and they wouldn't taste too good.
But then you will conquer them, and handfuls of your group will become rich and powerful, while keeping you in your place, again, then..........................................
Dennis is not crazy. He's saner than most of us. He is, in fact, one of my heroes! Long live Monty Python!!
"Bloody peasant!"
As a kid i had a wonderful history teacher. He played this scene to us dummies and we really had no idea what was going on in it. We were dumb. Then he told us of "how things were back then" history lessons. Then he played the scene again. We were all laughing so hard. He gave us a context of the commentary and made it absolutely TEACHABLE. Thank you Mr. Gallagher!
6:21 "Holy Roman Empire" isn't the ancient Romans from Italy.
Yes, the "Holy Roman Empire" was not the "Roman Empire". It probably wasn't particularly Holy or even much of an Empire either. Use of "Holy Roman Empire" would be a bit like modern Britain deciding to call itself "The Devine Indian Empire" on the basis of having conquered it a few centuries ago. I was puzzled by reference to Romans, with footage of marching Roman soldiers (presumably modern people re-enacting Roman soldiers rather than 2000 year old film footage).
King Arthur didn't live in the Medieval period. He was a mythical king from the Dark Ages around 400AD, getting on for a thousand years earlier. This was before kings really existed so I guess a lot of people just lived in patriarchal tribes.
There are some mistakes in this video… for one, there wasn’t the typical „tax collector” in medieval times. Taxes were largely payed in the form of natural goods (at least before the 15th century) directly to the lord. Thus your statement suggesting that “they would be left alone without a lord as long as they paid their taxes” is illogical.
Also, those peasants that “had a disdain for the monarchy” largely had a disdain FOR THE INDIVIDUAL MONARCH, not the title or concept of a king in and of itself.
For another, Dithmarsch was in the Holy Roman Empire, not the Roman Empire which collapsed in the West in AD 476.
Pedantique?
Moi ?
@@ArtyFactual_Intelligence Qu'est-ce que?
There's a great song by Screeching Weasel called:
Come See the Violence Inherent in the System.
I saw this movie decades before the song came out, but I haven't got an idydic memory, so I had a eureka moment when I realized
The edited word in Dennis' retort was "aquatic". Don't know why anyone would edit "farcical aquatic ceremony", but there you go.
Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
Sounds like a modern-day Body Corporate, you have a seven-person Committee to represent the owners for smaller day-to-day matters, and once every year for major votes you need a minimum amount of owners to vote (quorum), and finally, a new committee is voted in.
I can't believe you talked about swampy marsh lands and didn't at least have pictures from later on in the film on the screen. Soooooooo fitting...
Here's a little Easter egg most will miss. Here's the line: "If I went around saying I was Emperor just 'cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!" Even as a teenager in the theatre back then I thought that was an odd but clever line. In Grail lore, out of place. And how does Denis even know what an emperor is, let alone know what a scimitar is? Back then emperors were from the exotic East. Big fighting blades were swords. Denis would know royalty as monarchs and kings. The movie gives a nod to origins of the myth of Arthur's magical sword. Even though Excalibur is not a scimitar, that is where the word comes from.
Years ago I heard a lecture on ancient Arab metallurgy where the lecturer made an astonishing observation. The Arabic word qalib (or calibre) means "a mold for casting." And as I recall, the hilts of scimitars were cast separately from the blade and then the near finished blade was inserted into the hilt mold while the metal was still liquid, thus fusing the two items together. (or the blade was already in the mold when poured...it was a long time ago). The important part of the process came when the mold was broken open and the whole sword revealed. And that revealing in the Persian was called "Exqalib" or in the French, ex-calibre - in English, Excalibur !!!
This is another part of the Arthurian legend. The important sword encased in stone that must be successfully removed.
Thus, Arthur's sword is special because it was of a technology that Europeans and the British could not duplicate. The blade, if it existed, would have been razor sharp ultra thin Damascus steel, and the hilt custom formed and perfectly attached. A sword so well balanced it could be wielded faster and more accurately in battle than any other, and so sharp it would cut armour like butter. To the backwater Brittons of the 900's, Excalibur was a technological marvel.
And today a Monty Python and the Holy Grail Easter egg.
Little did I realise this back in the day, as I howled in laughter as a teenager. Still, we live and learn 😊.
My ex-girlfriend's family was from Dithmarschen. She certainly was very argumentative, no doubt.
No she wasn't.
I was arguing in my spare time
Thanks!
i just realized the whole channel is underated da fk
Yeap
This is absolutely my favorite scene in the film. It's some of their best writing and so well illustrates their sense of absurdity.
I've seen this film, I don't know how many times and I'm just noticing the face in the tree @1:44.
Good call....wood spirit.
Common on staves.
One of the best Monty Python scenes ever and so relevant to today.
My God! They're Soveriegn Citizens!
Freemen on the land!
@@robertcartwright4374Fremen in the desert. 😅
not quite, as these guys might actually have some legal standing. in the present day all land is accounted for and there is not free land to soveriegn on.
@@cocoadragon8554 I mean, if you live in Antarctica outside of active research stations or that one Chilean town, or just float about in international waters, you might get away with a form of sovereignty depending on what exactly you're doing with it
This scene might be my favorite scene in not just any comedy movie but any movie period. Having read the People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn it got me thinking that if America has so much lost history that most people have no idea about doesn't it stand to reason that there is a HUGE amount of lost world history too?
The ideas that brought about an end to feudalism can not possibly have come from the ruling class within feudalism. Yes I know about the Enlightenment era & Locke etc BUT I can't help but shake the feeling that even that has tons of lost history too. So yeah I absolutely believe that there were MANY different versions of Dennis not just in England but everywhere at many points in history.
History is written by the winners, those psychos on top. The more of a sociopath you are, the more authority you claim. In the case of monarchs, the inbreeding, isolation, and uncertainty may have contributed to the mental instability of more than a few.
The Peasant War in Germany even had a "black bloc" and "no gods no masters" (Florian Geyers Black Company and his sword allegedly having "Nulla Crux Nulla Corona" - neither cross nor crown - written on it) - Then Martin Luther betrayed them.
6:26 XD I think you missed the holy part. It is called the Holy Roman empire
Yup absolutely a different thing. HRE wasn't holy, wasn't Roman and it wasn't an Empire!
Honestly, as I've gotten older, Dennis more and more has seemed like the reasonable one in the situation. Imagine you're just out there doing your digging and some dude comes up to you and starts acting like he's in charge of you. Then he attacks you when you refuse to acknowledge the frankly absurd claim to authority he says he has over you.
Looks like Ditmarschen (sic) is where Swamp Castle is.
I've hoped for my entire adult life that I might find Castle Anthrax.
Despite the peril.
@@FredScuttle456 No; it’s too perilous.
@nicksterj YES YES YES!
You can't become king because some moistened bint tossed you a scimitar.😄
And I have been listening to a podcast on the history of science in the Middle Ages.... Not as dark or as dumb as we've been led to believe! Great and funny examination.
You should do a video on Mel Brooks. Im not sure if the sarcastic condescending narration tone is on purpose or not, but it was just another layer of humor for me. The last time someone talked at me this way was my vice principal in 6th grade.
Great vid man, keep it up. Earned an easy sub with this one. 🤙
If Dennis is “nuts” then you’re part of the problem ;-)
Dennis is just angry , we should all be Dennis
WE IS ! ....I Mean Ahhhhh!
I have never doubted that Monty Python and the Holy Grail - along with all other Monty Python films - are anything other than absolutely representative of the times they portray!
You messed up around 2/3rds into the video, you incorrectly called the HRE the roman empire, which never extended to the area of modern Dithmarschen
Brilliantly executed/ written /edited video with a very compelling narrative. Now subscribed❣️💪🏽✨🏆✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
"how accurate is monty python" ?
Very, very, all the way to being accurately silly 😜😂 every single time!
Don't get me started on the Great Pre-War Joke
A moose once bit my sister