For Glory & Honor! Medieval Reenactors Go To Battle | Originals | NBC News

[@saintricardo8746]

SHE ACTUALLY WENT INTO BATTLE. GIVE HER A RAISE

[@theMermaidRhonda]

Pennsic is a magical place. I've been 26 times, have made life-long friends and have experienced things that just don't happen in the mundane world. My first War, a heavy fog rolled in one night and blanketed the entire campground in mist. It lasted for hours. I walked around in the darkness, looking at the firelight and torches and listening to the sounds of Pennsic. It was Pennsic 19 and it was incredible. I didn't want to leave!

[@darinbruck]

Hats off to NBC for covering such a great event as Pennsic! For those of us who were there, you did a great job. You even got Duke Cuan wearing a linengarb Coptic tunic.

[@kyndread71]

Be careful at SCA events -- you'll end up meeting your spouse! We celebrated our 20-yr anniversary last May.

[@trentusnubianus]

I'm Sir Trentus of The East. I am leader of the East Kingdom Fast Reaction Unit. I pride myself on knowledge of tactics. I say this because one year, I got swept up in romance and asked my girlfriend to marry me on the first day of Pennsic. I was on my knees before I realized what I had done. A second later, the thought occurred to me that if she says "no", I'm gonna have to run and get me a nylon tent to sleep in for two weeks. 🤣. Congratulations on your 20+ years.

[@fritzhoffmann9746]

I went years ago from the Barony of Bhakail located in Philadelphia. Hail to the mighty Salamander! I didn't fight but surely wanted to. Carried the banner and brought water to the fighters. It was a great time & experience!!

[@RWZiggy]

The horn blower reclineth upon a hand hewn 12th century lawn chair

[@moeskido]

Truly, it must needs provide more benefit to yon grandfather than a knotty-pine takedown bench.

[@jordanjenkins3389]

I have been in the SCA for 15 years and i am training to be a heavy fighter in a few years. I recomend the SCA to anyone

[@FazeFlyz-wf6ec]

That’s my dad and he was king of the east kingdom four times and four years and i love him and he is the most humble person ever and he is kind and he’s honest and he’s always there for you and he’s always respectful and he’s always been here for me and he’s always yelling well sorta yelling at my sister and whenever my sister does something wrong my dad grounds her and he sometimes cries and my family is in a two bedroom condo and we don’t even own it

[@1_w0rm]

I have been going to Pennsic sense I was about a month old and I'm 11 now. Pennsic to me is not just a thing I go to for fun it has become a part of my life I grew up at Pennsic the people of my camp are my family the adults remember me as the little girl who has always been there the one who never grew up they know me as the little Tori Bean. Most people think its stupid but you don't know what its like until you actually go. When I go I get to escape all the things going on in the real world and just forget about reality for a WEEK (or two) PENNSIC IS THE BEST!!😄 And I'm SOO happy I'm happy I get to go Friday!!!!😄😄😂😂CANT WAIT ANYMORE

[@mirandadalgetty6441]

Panic!_at the_Tori Hey, I might see you there this year!

[@donttreadonme4355]

Being eleven you have better grammar than most 30 year olds lmao

[@viewer1431]

You still go ?

[@RevanPorkins]

I wanna go lol

[@1_w0rm]

@@viewer1431 hey, yeah I'm 16 now and I still go. It was very upsetting when it got cancelled this year due to corona but I know it was for the better

[@owly33]

Cudos to the reporter for testing some heavy fighting.

[@frenchgalloglass]

"heavy fighting"... They are using rattan swords... Come to Europe and try some real, steel weapon heavy fighting ;)

[@michaelmorris1865]

I've switched to steel from rattan and the rattan was definitely heavier, you tend to pull blows and have some things you can't do without steel.

[@odonovan]

@@frenchgalloglass, BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!! Do that until someone gets permanently injured. The SCA CHOOSES to use rattan for safety reasons. Getting hit with SCA weapons is akin to getting hit with baseball bats. I'm a little guy, 5'8" tall, and weighed about 155 when I used to fight. As little as I was, I knocked rivets out of plate armor and dented 16 ga. steel with my rattan swords. I fought guys who weighed nearly 300 lbs. and who swung two handed swords one handed. I had the dents in my armor and the bruises on my body to prove it. No matter how hard I was hit, I was safe. You can't say that about the guys who use live steel.

[@christinawallace2051]

Awesome! I live in the Kingdom of the Outlands and recently made the decision to join the SCA as a musician.

[@michaelslack5269]

It is July 2017...I live in Roswell and have been trying to make contact with the local group for some time, are they even in existence here anymore? Please do feel free to contact me. I would love to know one way or the other at least. I only ask because using the SCA web contacts for the Outlands has yielded nothing so far.Thank you for your time in this matter, and may you have a wonderful adventure!

[@supercannonball1236]

And they got the reporter in armor!

[@shaokhan2845]

The battles look sooo fun

[@The_Gallowglass]

As long as you're ok with getting beat on and having multiple mild concussions you'll have tons of fun. :D

[@trollface2365]

I've been doing it since I was 2

[@mammotharcher11]

the battles are fun

[@brysonhoyle4625]

Uncle Al' join SCA like me

[@drydenlockwood8702]

ay man it’s hard take it from me ok I’m in the sca

[@scottingleman8103]

I've been to pennsic almost every year for the last 25 years it is the most fun. Aside from seeing all of my friends together I am at heavy armored fighter and squire in the SCA. Armored fighting is definitely the second best thing you could do with your time.

[@LQOTW]

I first read about Pennsic in the 6th grade (1975). It was in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and I had to bring a newspaper article to school for some assignment. I have never forgotten how wondrous it sounded. And though I finally got to play with the SCA as an adult, I have never been to Pennsic. *sigh* Perhaps, one day...

[@The_Gallowglass]

go!

[@lars8794]

Have you been yet?

[@LQOTW]

@@lars8794 Nope. Not yet. But, this might be the year (fingers crossed).

[@palebloom6118]

​@@LQOTW Were you able to attend?

[@NicNac723]

I guess Pennsylvania is a battleground state in more than 1 way haha! :D

[@UrbanCohort]

East Kingdom, Northern Army here.

[@supercannonball1236]

"But sort of like without the whole bubonic plague" Covid : Allow me to introduce myself

[@williamb5484]

Great video, I've seen my very own squire Rafael in the beginning of the video to Duke Cuan, who as a great King, Knighted me ten years ago. I myself was made squire on that very battlefield, and belted my own squire not far from that same spot. Also taking the prize in the only turny I've ever won ,just an arrows shot from the same clump of grass of that very same field.

[@forkittens]

Best part of being a scadian... No furries

[@BachataKnight]

It starts.... tomorrow. The only thing I use vacation at work for 😆 🤣

[@bigmo6967]

I will get to go for the first time next month :)

[@1_w0rm]

Good luck Pennsic is the best!

[@brysonhoyle4625]

Carrick Mac Manus yay

[@BrigitofBergental]

ahhh... Home.

[@vickiwaatti1076]

I have been involved in the SCA for over 20 years (SCA name is Lady Rose Bobyth). Fun group for adults and kids! And it is pronounced that it would rhyme with Law not skate.

[@dedhampster4730]

Wow, I am surprised that there are no comments. I wish I had the time to devote to SCA. I guess I'll have to keep up with roleplay games, renfairs, and medieval literature fiction and non-fiction

[@Soveliss1986]

SCA is a wonderful family of friends ! please try and join in one day sca.org

[@BrigitofBergental]

Ded Hampster The SCA is something you can give as little or as much time as you want to. Some people attend just a couple of events a year, other people are at events almost every weekend and at workshops the weekends they aren't at events. I personally attend 12-15 events a year, including Pennsic. Go to SCA.org and find your kingdom and look up events. If you dress up for the renfairs, you can wear your renfair garb (just don't wear anything crown-like or a white belt because there are rules about those things) to an event to check it out.

[@imoved2348]

Ah fellow Scadian!

[@maddogsandfreaks111]

Ded Hampster There is no reason to not join even if you can only go once a year its a funn way to meet others of like mind.

[@Cabochon1360]

Good piece! Makes me want to go to Pennsic again. Maybe next year!

[@valkyrie1066]

Yep. The classes! You might be surprised how many of them DO relate to modern times. They are skills we have LOST through the ages; we no longer understand how something is made, or why. Yes, I own a lighter, for instance. But I'm wicked fast with a flint and steel. I'm unarmed. But I've studied hand-to-hand combat with "found objects" and I can do pretty well with a trash can lid and a pipe. There IS real-world application. You find youself homeless; what do you do? I thank the GODS that I had the skills I learned to take care of myself with little to nothing. Sure, I liked camping....but it's not recreation when it is forced on you. I can't WAIT to "go home" to Pennsic! I have a WHOLE new respect, and love, for the group.

[@The_Gallowglass]

0:05 I know the two guys in the middle front! Clovenshield! :D

[@MarshsAUTacity]

That moment you can only remember 2 times the SCA has been mentioned on NBC news in the last 5 years, one of them being good & the other being an accident in which someone died in such a horrible way, so out of the ordinary that everyone had to know about it... My parents knew him, they had known him for nearly 30 years before he was stabbed by his own lance at an event with many there to see.

[@a13xandrea]

MIDDLE KINGDOM FTW!!!!!

[@theMermaidRhonda]

Draco Invictus!

[@nicholasjasonprasetyo7407]

1:44 Reporter: You feel like you get the right sense now, but sort of without the whole bubonic plague? Ummmm...well, about that...

[@kennyg2629]

ive found my calling

[@dreadfortserjeant-at-arms7955]

NBC news, This is NOT medieval reenacting. Though of course there may be some real historical reenactors there just to have some fun.

[@KarmaofOminit]

We don't call it reenactment, we call it recreation. We aren't reenacting events that occurred the middle ages, but use the term creative anachronism.

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@KarmaofOminit yeah

[@scottingleman8103]

Okay NBC I hate your programming 99.99% of the time, but I'll give you this one A+!

[@Nikita4ever7000]

I'm from the Kingdom of Antir!!!

[@LQOTW]

Rue Stahl Northshield, here!

[@The_Gallowglass]

We were just up at shade with Northshield few days ago. CLOVENSHIELD!

[@olivermckowen135]

Kingdom of the West, Principality of Cynagua

[@JECGaming]

I live in the kingdom of Drachenwold

[@EpsilVep]

+J.E.C Gaming i live in the kingdom of meridies

[@shaokhan2845]

I live in Ciad

[@brysonhoyle4625]

Ahhhhh not For glory and honor!! Honor and glory! Golf wars is amazing.

[@deece1482]

These are not reenactors. These are larpers. Their armour isn't even correct...

[@yourlocalfbiagent0028]

Thank God someone already said it

[@palebloom6118]

We don't claim to be reenactors, that's a news-ism. We allow people to do as much or as little as they want, while encouraging more when they can accomplish it. Everyone has different lives and different abilities.

[@kingmaker2865]

In the UK we use steel weapons....😉

[@JanWyman-dv1qh]

Scadians use steel, but it's steel vs steel - separate from the heavy armor rattan swords.

[@vph7]

I got cheated on at one of these things. How pathetic is that?

[@nachoooooo800]

1:52 Nay the Black Plague wert ages pass’d, ‘tis now the churlish Plague of Covid that ails us.

[@jacob-dv3jh]

how do i join one of these?

[@DeeBee1076]

u can probably google for local groups and contact them by email or something :) they're pretty much always super welcoming no matter where you're from

[@ThatFontGuy]

Go to SCA.org and then burrow down through the kingdoms and baronies/groups etc to find out where the group closest to you is.

[@77wolfpack]

i know this is probably late, but be careful. This group is a freaking cult. I was in for over 10 years, and this site is very accurate: www.sam-hane.com/locksley/cultsca.htm

[@KarmaofOminit]

I don't know where you participated, but I have 26 years playing in the Kingdom of Atenveldt and nothing in my experience would come close to the definition of a 'cult'. Your link isn't even active.

[@77wolfpack]

Michelle Allcott-Mills i wish that site was still active because it broke it down very well. After discussing this with a "knight", he saw where i was coming from and saw my points. I agreed i wouldnt continue posting those websites even thou i think the sca is a dangerous organization. Let everyone go forth and make there own decisions. Regardless of it being good or very very bad.

[@richardtalavera1630]

bearclaw gatorade ... yeahyus😎

[@DRaven-of2lv]

ATENVEDLT STRONG 💪😤🔥

[@spacemanapeinc7202]

"Reenactment" yeah sure bro.

[@BTBSPORTS22]

Sooo fun

[@Nikita4ever7000]

What Kingdom are you from???

[@locorocky1]

West Kingdom!

[@mirandadalgetty6441]

Rue Stahl Ealdormere!

[@kayleearafinwiel8186]

West Kingdom here, too!

[@chickenking4888]

Æthelmearc!

[@fwir711u2]

Your mom's

[@chanhit32]

wonderful, facebook my acc-chanhit

[@LavaDrink]

"Death is not permanent" "Every single person in the SCA can be a hero" , yeah I was all in until they said this. I will explain this now: 1. "Death is not Permanent" This is a bad idea, if death is not permanent it will take a major glory off of killing a specific person. Respawning in game is a bad idea, but your character does not have to disappear, unless you somehow actually get a spot on a top position, like a king or lord. So if you die another person can take your place, by what ever means is chosen (this might also bring a more strategic view point on the head people of a nation, now bringing politics into play). This will make it so people if the king, lord, ect do there job well people will actively try to not let those people die, making them you know "important". That is how to fix that problem. 2."Every single person in the SCA can be a hero" This is not a good thing, for if everyone is a hero; no one is. You don't be a hero by just showing up, you must earn it! You must must do something great, maybe fight well, be in the game for a long time, or something. If everyone thinks there a special little snowflake the game will not be as in depth as it could be. Some times it is good to be no one, and if you want to change that, then do it, find something you are good at and do it. These are my issues with this, and my fixes for them, and I can go in more depth if anyone asks. If you have answers or questions I will answer too.

[@AndriaMichele]

LOL You sound like me when I was in college... so darn serious. :-D :-D :-D This is the real world. People spend thousands on armor and to be at these events. Getting to fight for a few minutes and then die?? Yeah, I agree with you... way more realistic, but not a good way to keep people coming back and enjoying themselves. When I was in the SCA (in college), I was totally annoyed with many "not serious" things within the SCA. Now, I'm an adult and have been adult-ing for decades. Adult-ing freaking sucks sometimes. LOL I don't want to go to an event that is too serious and kills people off and blah, blah, blah. Geez. Re-enact Game of Thrones if you're that into death. LOL This is RE-CREATION, but it's also RECREATION. There needs to be a balance between fun and serious... most of us get enough serious in our "real lives". Speaking of "the real world," this isn't that... it's fantasy. And honey, if you're not a hero in your fantasies, then you are doing it wrong. ;-) XO

[@MarshsAUTacity]

The SCA isn't all about fighting with ratan sticks or boffer swords, we also do archery. As mentioned in the clip, we have classes as well; for example, teaching you how to do leather work safely, bead work, calligraphy, etc. We are there & enjoy being there because we get to have fun, see friends who haven't been able to see in a while, do bardic circles at night & sing or tell stories, there's so much more to do than fight. So here's it plain & simple. *It's not just about fighting. We aren't there to play hero, we don't go to specifically hit people with swords, we're there because we want to be there & get away from real life for a while.*

[@LavaDrink]

@@AndriaMichele @Marsh ;-; Actully, I was not in the SCA when I posted that comment. I'm actully in it now, and reading my comment is quite strange to me. It's like someone else wrote it. I redact my former statement, and any further arguments are towards a person who does not exist 😂 I agree with both of you, thank you for commenting my dudes 👌

[@evelynn1173]

​@@LavaDrinkyeah I was gonna say cause you made no sense there dude

[@LavaDrink]

You,@@evelynn1173 , have just witness someone on the internet go through stages in his life. I was 15 or 14 when I wrote the main comment. Super strange to read it again after almost 7 years. Anyway, the opinion I posted above is no longer held.