Latin chanting in HOLY GRAIL?

[Walking Man]

For any of you Latin and Holy Grain fans....
I always wondered what the heck those monks were chanting.
Any ideas? (is it actually latin?)
Thanks.

 

[Cougar Allen]

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_sounds/hg/monks.wav

Sounds like church Latin to me.

 

[Murnax]

Pie Iesu Domine. Dona Eis Requiem. Its something like "Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest."

 

[Walking Man]

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_sounds/hg/monks.wav

Sounds like church Latin to me.

Thanks for the link. Of course it's supposed to sound like Church latin, but what does it REALLY mean?

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I have no idea what this HOLY GRAIL is, but is the "Latin" anything like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem

It includes a reference to

The Pie Jesu combines paraphrases of the final verse of the Dies Iræ and the Agnus Dei.

Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem. Dona eis requiem sempiternam.
("O sweet Lord Jesus, grant them rest; grant them everlasting rest.")

 

[donovan]

Murnax has it right.

Jack

 

[Walking Man]

Darn... I was hoping it was something funny. Thanks.
(Or is it funny, and am I missing something... maybe it's funny because they're not allowing themselves rest by hitting themselves? )

 

[Cougar Allen]

 

[Gollnick]

Pie Iesu Domine. Dona Eis Requiem. Its something like "Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest."

Mr. Murnax is basically correct.

The monks in the movie are hitting themselves, flagellation, with the prayer that their suffering will be creditted to the departed as merit thus helping the departed enter heaven from purgatory.

 

[bexteck]

Mr. Murnax is basically correct.

The monks in the movie are hitting themselves, flagellation, with the prayer that their suffering will be creditted to the departed as merit thus helping the departed enter heaven from purgatory.

Monty Python makes too much sense now, watching it will never be the same. Haha.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Darn... I was hoping it was something funny.

No, it's CHURCH Latin. What you're looking for is PIG Latin.

 

[mwerner]

Back when I first saw The Grail many years ago, that was a laugh-out-loud scene to a Catholic-raised guy who started out with Latin masses and two years of obligatory Latin in high school.

First the chanting, punctuated by the "clunk" sounds, then the view of the monks, and finally you realized they were whacking themselves in the head... Great stuff.

 

[L6steel]

That flick is hillarious!!!
"I fart in your general direction"
"I told them we already got one"

 

[Triton]

"I told them we already got one"

Yesa it's quite nice! (In outrageous french accent)

Now about those unladen swallows...

 

[ohoisin]

European or African?

 

[L6steel]

European or African?

Lmaoooooo!!!
The exact same thing I thought when I read his post!!!