Carmina Burana - WTF?

Well I have just found the most goofy version ever of Carmina Burana. 

It's a 1975 video of a production by French director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

It's like a cross between a painting by Hieronymus Bosch and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Probably my favorite moment is their rendition of "Were diu werlt alle min" - in English "Were all the world mine" a song that expresses an obsession with the Queen of England, supposedly Eleanor of Aquitaine.

It goes, in Middle High German:

Were diu werlt alle min

von dem mere unze an den Rin,

des wolt ih mih darben,

daz diu chünegin von Engellant

lege an minen armen.

Translation:

Were all the world mine

from the sea to the Rhine,

I would give it all up

to have the queen of England

lie in my arms.

In the production the "queen of England" is apparently in one of those carnival dunking booths. The best part, she has a sign that says "chünegin von Engellant" (queen of England) on it. I like it when she twirls her braids.