We’ve seen Shatner rap Shakespeare, and Klenginem rap in Klingon; this video takes it.  The cake, that is.  Red Yak produced the video (read the story here) and posted it under the YouTube user name veryredyak.  The rhythm of Middle English really lends itself to a hip-hop medium, and Chaucer’s epic Canturbury Tales is poetic, hence the rhyming aspect.  For my Word Origins/Linguistics course (medieval literature major) in college, part of my final was memorizing, and reciting (properly, which these guys to wonderfully) the General Prologue from the Tales.

Enjoy the video.  There will be a direct translation after the jump.

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