Commenting on bane-herrings as an Icelandic kenning for swords, Ben Waggoner quietly drops into his translation of The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, among the otherwise serious scholarly endnotes, this one (p. 114, n. 4):
For more on the early medieval use of herrings as chopping tools, see Monty Python and the Holy Grail, scene 19.
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