Eric Idle - Historian's Introduction to Act I lyrics

[A FAMOUS HISTORIAN, spoken] England, 932 A.D. A kingdom divided. To the West, the Anglo-Saxons. To the East, the French. Above, nothing but Celts and some people from Scotland. In Guinard, Palace, and Difford, plague. In the kingdoms of Wess**, Suss**, Ess** and Kent, plague. In Mercia, and the two Anglias, plague, with a 50% chance of pestilence and famine coming out of the Northeast at twelve miles per hour. Legend tells us of an extraordinary leader who arose from the chaos to unite a troubled kingdom A man with a vision, who gathered knights together in a Holy Quest. This man was Arthur, King of the Britons, for this was England!