Two exhausted peasants bed down for the night and one wakes up starving. His friend sneaks off to fetch leftover gruel, takes a wrong turn in the dark and makes a series of disastrous assumptions.

I give you Gautier le Leu’s De deus vilains, a medieval fabliau packed with mistakes, toilet humour, and the usual fabliau flair.

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📜 Text: Translation by Nathaniel E. Dubin

🎵 Title music: “Celebration” by Alexander Nakarada

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