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Historia Wrocław, opowiedzmy Wrocław - Juliusz Woźny

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00:00Daj, ać ja pobrusa, a ty pociwaj.
00:11This is the first sentence in Polish written in Henryk's book,
00:17not far from Wrocław, around 1270.
00:22The sentence is about milling in Żarny.
00:25Thanks to the kindness of the Archaeological Museum,
00:28we can see such a neolithic prototype of mills.
00:32These are also mills, only a little different.
00:36It was even harder to mill grain on these mills than on rotary mills.
00:42Here, in Henryk's book, in Silesia,
00:45he wrote this first sentence in Polish.
00:49But what does this statement mean?
01:05Well, milling in Żarny was a very, very hard job,
01:10and as Opat Piotr noted,
01:13the wife of Boguchwała was a fat woman,
01:17she could not cope with household chores,
01:20so the knight gave her up.
01:24Well, he even turns to her with court gallantry.
01:28Let me mill, and you rest.
01:33Very, very beautiful words.
01:35Apparently, the knight Boguchwała loved his fluffy wife.
01:39But at the same time, this sentence tells us about a real revolution
01:44The mills enter the historical scene here in Poland.
01:49For women, it's like an automatic washing machine.
01:52It releases them from very hard work.
01:56Under the mill, they weave baskets,
02:00and the miller does all the work for them.
02:04The duel of Żaryn and Kamień Młynski
02:07did not end with the collapse of the Middle Ages at all.
02:11Imagine that even in the 20th century,
02:14during the German occupation,
02:17Żaryn could be taken to a concentration camp.
02:22Why?
02:23The Germans were very careful
02:26to keep food production under their control.