Knights Who Say Ni Knights Who Say Ni The Knights Who Say "Ni!", also called the Knights of Ni, are a band of knights encountered by King Arthur and his followers in the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". They demonstrate their power by shouting "Ni!" (pronounced "nee"), terrifying the party, whom they refuse to allow passage through their forest unless appeased through the gift of a shrubbery. The knights appear silhouetted in a misty wood, wearing robes and horned helmets; their number is never apparent, but there are at least six. The leader of the knights, played by Michael Palin, is the
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Jacques Pradel radio interview on 'France-Inter', 18 February 1982: There are no references to the Jesus bloodline in the "Priory of Sion documents" and the link exists only within the context of a hypothesis made by the authors of "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail". From the "Conspiracies On Trial: The Da Vinci Code" documentary: While Pierre Plantard claimed that the Merovingians were descended from the Tribe of Benjamin, the Jesus bloodline hypothesis found in "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" instead hypothesized that the Merovingians were descended from the Davidic line of the Tribe of Judah. Historian