A snow-dusted miniature lute rests on a metal plate beside a knife, fork and curling paper streamers.

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Narrator

In the frozen land of Nador, they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels...and there was much rejoicing.

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail ‧ 1975

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A narrator announces a bleak, silly fate for a group of musicians, then caps it with a cheerful note of celebration. The comedy is the mismatch: something grim gets told in a storybook voice, so the happy ending belongs only to the eaters.

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