The legend goes that before the Guldensporenslag (Battle of the Golden Spurs) in May 1302, the Flemish slaughtered every Frenchman they could find in the city of Bruges, an act known as the "Brugse Metten". They identified Frenchmen based on their inability to pronounce the Flemish phrase ' (shield and friend), or possibly ' (friend of the Guilds). However, many Medieval Flemish dialects did not contain the cluster "sch-" either (even today's Kortrijk dialect has "sk-"), and Medieval French rolled the r just as Flemish did.