Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
“And when their bones into confusion fall,
Say ye, who knew the living man by sight,
Which is the villein now and which the knight?”
Wer kan den hêrren von dem knehte gescheiden,
swâ er ir gebeine blôzez fünde,
het er ir joch lebender künde?
"Swer âne vorhte, hêrre got", line 10; translation by I. G. Colvin, from James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (eds.) The Portable Medieval Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977) p. 194.
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Wer kan den hêrren von dem knehte gescheiden, swâ er ir gebeine blôzez fünde, het er ir joch lebender künde?
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