We won! Again
Jul. 17th, 2010 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraThe battle has ended and the Teutonic Knights were defeated. I watched the one hour reenactment of the battle. I was at the same time envious and felt sorry for the people who were there.
I felt the first because it looked truly awesome. Over 2000 people came to take part in the show. When those thousands of knights started to fight it almost looked like an actual battle and not just group of people who do it for fun and try not to harm each other. Basically it was like a historic movie but live. And with better costumes (people who take part in this are very, very insistent on being as historically accurate as possible).
BBC has some photos from the event. Some more photos from the battle.
And some battle moments from euronews channel:
I felt sorry both for the 150 000 - 200 000 crowd gathered to watch this and the actors as today was the hottest day of summer so far (for the last week it's been hotter in Poland then here in North Carolina). It was 35oC in the shade (95oF as internet calculator informs me). Probably over 40oC (104oF) in the sun. And I don't even want to think how hot it was in those shiny, metal armors. lets just say that the Teutonic Knights Grand master was happy to die and as he said himself get out of that hell. The weather during actual battle was pretty similar and the real battle took about 12 hours. And Poles made Teutons wait in the sun. No wonder some knights fainted in the battlefield.
In present time he spectators also had to spent hours in the incredible traffic jams to get and then leave battle field (and AC is not very common in cars in Poland - especially older ones). Paramedics had a lot of work today and the signals of ambulances were drowning the battle noise from time to time. Still most people looked like they had fun and enjoyed the show.
I felt the first because it looked truly awesome. Over 2000 people came to take part in the show. When those thousands of knights started to fight it almost looked like an actual battle and not just group of people who do it for fun and try not to harm each other. Basically it was like a historic movie but live. And with better costumes (people who take part in this are very, very insistent on being as historically accurate as possible).
BBC has some photos from the event. Some more photos from the battle.
And some battle moments from euronews channel:
I felt sorry both for the 150 000 - 200 000 crowd gathered to watch this and the actors as today was the hottest day of summer so far (for the last week it's been hotter in Poland then here in North Carolina). It was 35oC in the shade (95oF as internet calculator informs me). Probably over 40oC (104oF) in the sun. And I don't even want to think how hot it was in those shiny, metal armors. lets just say that the Teutonic Knights Grand master was happy to die and as he said himself get out of that hell. The weather during actual battle was pretty similar and the real battle took about 12 hours. And Poles made Teutons wait in the sun. No wonder some knights fainted in the battlefield.
In present time he spectators also had to spent hours in the incredible traffic jams to get and then leave battle field (and AC is not very common in cars in Poland - especially older ones). Paramedics had a lot of work today and the signals of ambulances were drowning the battle noise from time to time. Still most people looked like they had fun and enjoyed the show.
