Being Catholic smells of elderberries

[Oremus Pro Invicem]

I never understood why people translate "svck" to mean "smells of elderberries"? Within the context of the Monty Python movie it would be like saying "your mother was a hamster and your daddy smelled of svck" which doesn't make much sense at all.  However, given that hamsters reproduce a lot and that elderberries were used to make alcoholic beverages, we can assume the French soldier was calling the King the product of an ugly women with loose morals having sex with a man too drunk to care about having relations with such a woman. 

Just saying. 

Edited August 25, 2016 by Oremus Pro Invicem